Morphological diversification of Common Crossbill Loxia curvirostra populations within Iberia and the Balearics

Ardea

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 99-107

  Alonso, Daniel ^a   Arizaga, Juan ^a,b   Miranda, Rafael ^b   Hernández, M Ángeles ^b  

^a Aranzadi Sciences Society   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Balearics; Biometrics; Common crossbill; Discriminant function analysis; Iberia; Loxia curvirostra

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOMETRY; BIRD; DIFFERENTIATION; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ALICANTE [ALICANTE (PRV)]; ALICANTE [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA]; ANDALUCIA; BALEARIC ISLANDS; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MAJORCA; MALAGA [ANDALUCIA]; MALAGA [MALAGA (PRV)]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NAVARRA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33745563564     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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