Reevaluating the cost of natal dispersal: Post-fledging survival of red -bellied wood peckers

Condor

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 341-347

  Cox, Allison S ^a   Kesler, Dylan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Foray; Juvenile survival; Melanerpes carolinus; Population modeling; Prospecting

Indexed keywords

AVES; MELANERPES CAROLINUS;

EID: 84862295757     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2012.110070     Document Type: Article

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