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Helminth community structure study on urban and forest blackbird (Turdus merula L.) populations in relation to seasonal bird migration on the south Baltic Sea coast (NW Poland) Cover

Helminth community structure study on urban and forest blackbird (Turdus merula L.) populations in relation to seasonal bird migration on the south Baltic Sea coast (NW Poland)

Helminthologia
Volume 51 (2014): Issue 2 (June 2014)
By: I. Rząd,  J. Sitko,  R. Sałamatin and  D. Wysocki  
Open Access
|Jun 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s11687-014-0219-6 | Journal eISSN: 1336-9083 | Journal ISSN: 0440-6605
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Keywords:
Turdus merula,
helminths,
urban,
forest,
migrations
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Life sciences,
Zoology,
Ecology,
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Medicine,
Clinical medicine,
Microbiology, virology and infection epidemiology

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