Prey Selection by Sparrowhawks, Accipiter nisus: Relative Predation Risk for Breeding Passerine Birds in Relation to their Size, Ecology and Behaviour

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

• Publication date

  1996-11-29

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/RSTB.1996.0141
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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