Life history patterns in birds and mammals and their evolutionary interpretation

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• Publication year

  1982

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  1982-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1007/BF00379994PMID 28309949
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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