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4 - Red-cockaded woodpeckers: Alternative pathways to breeding success

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2015

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Jeffrey R. Walters  and
Victoria Garcia
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Walter D. Koenig  and
Janis L. Dickinson
Walter D. Koenig
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Cornell University, New York
Janis L. Dickinson
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Cornell University, New York
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Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates
Studies of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
 , pp. 58 - 76
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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