Songs of the Savannah Sparrow: Structure and geographic variation

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1637-1646

  Sung, Ha Cheol ^a,b   Handford, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Korea National University of Education   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CLINAL INTERGRADE; GEOGRAPHICALLY NEIGHBORING POPULATIONS; SYLLABLE CATALOGUE;

BIRDS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SONG; SONGBIRD;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AMMODRAMUS SANDWICHENSIS; AVES; PASSERCULUS SANDWICHENSIS;

EID: 33947257788     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z06-159     Document Type: Article

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