Food supplements increase adult tarsus length, but not growth rate, in an island population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus)

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 80054725362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-431     Document Type: Article

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