Patterns of growth in nestling Indian Barn-Owls

Condor

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 885-890

  Nagarajan, Rajarathinavelu ^a   Thiyagesan, Krishinamoorthy ^a   Natarajan, Rajagopalan ^a   Kanakasabai, Ramalingam ^a  

^a A V C COLLEGE AUTONOMOUS   (India)

Author keywords

Altricial; Barn Owl; Growth; Logistic curve; Morphometry; Tyto alba stertens

Indexed keywords

STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 24744461753     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0885:POGINI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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