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Habitat-specific clutch size and cost of incubation in eiders reconsidered

✍ Scribed by Markus Öst; Mikael Wickman; Edward Matulionis; Benjamin Steele

Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
775 KB
Volume
158
Category
Article
ISSN
0029-8549

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