Nest Predation and Cowbird Parasitism Create a Demographic Sink in Wetland-Breeding Song Sparrows
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 99 (3) , 622-633
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1370474
Abstract
We studied mechanisms underlying poor breeding performance in a color-banded population of Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia) in coastal British Columbia for fou...This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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