Fledging success is a poor indicator of the effects of bird blow flies on ovenbird survival

Condor

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 193-197

  Streby, Henry M ^a,b   Peterson, Sean M ^a   Kapfer, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blow fly; Ovenbird; Seiurus aurocapilla; Trypocalliphora braueri

Indexed keywords

AVES; CALLIPHORIDAE; PROTOCALLIPHORA; SEIURUS; SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS; TRYPOCALLIPHORA BRAUERI;

EID: 67650240056     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2009.080095     Document Type: Article

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