Extremely low nesting success and characteristics of life history traits in an insular population of Parus varius namiyei

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-193

  Yamaguchi, Noriyuki ^a   Higuchi, Hiroyoshi ^b  

^a RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NESTING SUCCESS;

PARUS VARIUS;

EID: 21044446562     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/04-081     Document Type: Article

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