Effects of specimen age on plumage color

Auk

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 803-808

  Armenta, Jessica K ^a,b   Dunn, Peter O ^a   Whittingham, Linda A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b LONE STAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Fading; Museum specimens; Reflectance spectrometry; Ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FEATHER; PASSERINE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

AVES;

EID: 50649111537     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2008.07006     Document Type: Article

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