No evidence for adverse effects on fitness of fitting passive integrated transponders (PITs) in wild house sparrows Passer domesticus

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 271-275

  Schroeder, Julia ^a   Cleasby, Ian R ^a   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^b   Ockendon, Nancy ^c   Burke, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c The Nunnery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; POPULATION GROWTH; PROBABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 79959342389     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.05271.x     Document Type: Article

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