Reasons Why Predators Cannot Be Inferred from Nest Remains
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 101 (3), 718-721
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1370209
Abstract
I present reasons that preclude the identification of nest predators from nest remains: inter-specific overlap and intra-specific variation in patterns of nest ...Keywords
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