Geophagy in birds of Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Papua New Guinea

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-96

  Symes, C T ^a   Hughes, J C ^b   Mack, A L ^c   Marsden, S J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c EHP   (Papua New Guinea)

^d MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crater Mountain; Geophagy; Gibbsite; Illite; Kaolin; New Guinea; Palm cockatoo; Soil analysis; Vivianite

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; GEOPHAGY; SOIL ANALYSIS;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

AVES; CACATUIDAE; CASUARIIDAE; COLUMBIFORMES; PROBOSCIGER ATERRIMUS; PSITTACIFORMES;

EID: 33645457827     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2005.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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