Habitat-specific clutch size and cost of incubation in common eiders,Somateria mollissima
✍ Scribed by Mikael Kilpi; Kai Lindström
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 365 KB
- Volume
- 111
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0029-8549
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