Organochlorine Pollutants, Nest-Defense Behavior and Reproductive Success in Merlins
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 82 (1) , 81-84
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1366790
Abstract
In a population of Merlins nesting on the Canadian prairies, the eggs of females with large DDE burdens had significantly lower quality shells, disappeared more...This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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