Relatedness and nesting dispersion within breeding populations of greater white-fronted geese

Condor

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 600-607

  Fowler, Ada C ^a   Eadie, John M ^a   Ely, Craig R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anser albifrons frontalis; Kinship; Local population structure; Nesting; Pacific Greater White fronted Goose; Philopatry; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

ANSER; ANSER ALBIFRONS; ANSER ALBIFRONS FRONTALIS; ANSER SP.;

EID: 4043098878     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7446     Document Type: Article

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