PROPERTIES OF AVIAN EGG SHELLS AND THEIR ADAPTIVE VALUE
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Biological Reviews
- Vol. 57 (1) , 1-28
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.1982.tb00362.x
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