Does sex-specific duckling mortality contribute to male bias in adult common eiders?

Condor

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 574-578

  Lehikoinen, Aleksi ^a   Öst, Markus ^b   Hollmén, Tuula ^c   Kilpi, Mikael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ARONIA Coastal Zone Research Team   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Common Eider; Duckling; Sex ratio; Sex biased mortality

Indexed keywords

ANAS; ANATIDAE; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 70349600284     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2008.8574     Document Type: Article

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