The barnacle goose

The Barnacle Goose

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-296

  Black, Jeffrey M ^a   Prop, Jouke ^b   Larsson, Kjell ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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