Laying-stage nest attendance and onset of incubation in prairie nesting ducks

Auk

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 587-599

  Loos, Elizabeth R ^a,b   Rohwer, Frank C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b Delta Waterfowl Wetlands Res Stn   (Canada)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG; INCUBATION; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PRAIRIE; TEMPERATURE; WATERFOWL;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

ANAS; ANAS ACUTA; ANAS AMERICANA; ANAS CLYPEATA; ANAS CRECCA; ANAS DISCORS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANAS SP.; ANAS STREPERA; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AYTHYA; AYTHYA AFFINIS; AYTHYA AMERICANA; STREPERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2942624340     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090421     Document Type: Article

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