Variable weather patterns affect annual survival of northern flickers more than phenotype in the hybrid zone

Condor

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 701-708

  Flockhart, D T Tyler ^a   Wiebe, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bounded hybrid superiority hypothesis; Colaptes auratus; Fitness; Hybridization; North Atlantic Oscillation; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

COLAPTES; COLAPTES AURATUS;

EID: 67649905029     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2008.8613     Document Type: Article

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