Connecticut birds and climate change: Bergmann's rule in the fourth dimension

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 323-334

  McCoy, Dakota E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84863900005     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/045.019.0213     Document Type: Article

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