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Variation of morphometric parameters within the Savi's Warbler (Locustella luscinioides) population in eastern Poland Cover

Variation of morphometric parameters within the Savi's Warbler (Locustella luscinioides) population in eastern Poland

The Ring
Volume 24 (2002): Issue 2 (December 2002)
By: Jacek Nowakowski  
Open Access
|Apr 2010

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10050-008-0078-y | Journal eISSN: 2083-3520
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Language: English
Page range: 49 - 67
Published on: Apr 14, 2010
Published by: University of Gdańsk
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Keywords:
Savi's Warbler,
biometry,
long-term variability,
natural selection
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Zoology,
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