Age-related fledgling production in great cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo: Influence of individual competence and disappearance of phenotypes

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-157

  Bregnballe, Thomas ^a  

^a National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BIRD; BREEDING; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

AVES; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHALACROCORAX CARBO SINENSIS;

EID: 33644823812     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2006.03088.x     Document Type: Article

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