Brain size and urbanization in birds

Avian Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Møller, Anders Pape ^a   Erritzøe, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b Taps Old Rectory ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Birds; Brain mass; Skewness in Brain Mass; Standard deviation in Brain Mass; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997523814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20537166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40657-015-0017-y     Document Type: Article

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