Seasonal clutch size variation of multi-brooded bird species: Comparisons between breeding season and latitudes

Ibis

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 206-212

  Gil Delgado, José A ^a   Marco, Eva ^a   Paredes, Mariadela ^a   Vives Ferrándiz, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; CLUTCH SIZE; LATITUDE; MULTIPLE BROODING;

COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SAGUNTO; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; VALENCIA [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA]; WORLD;

AVES; CARDUELIS; CARDUELIS CARDUELIS; CARDUELIS CARDUELIS CARDUELIS; CARDUELIS CHLORIS; CHLORIS; VALENCIA;

EID: 13444266147     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2004.00391     Document Type: Article

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