Sources of variation in survival of breeding female wood ducks

Condor

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 201-210

  Hartke, Kevin M ^a,b   Grand, James B ^a   Hepp, Gary R ^a   Folk, Travis H ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aix sponsa; Breeding status; Female survival; Heterogeneity; Mortality risk; Reproductive effort; Wood Duck

Indexed keywords

AIX; AIX SPONSA; ANATIDAE;

EID: 32344432123     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2006)108[0201:SOVISO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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