At home with the birds: Kalahari tree skinks associate with sociable weaver nests despite African pygmy falcon presence

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Austral Ecology

• Publication date

  2014-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/AEC.12152
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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