Thesis
Some aspects of bill morphology in relation to ecology in the great tit Parus major
- Abstract:
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Ornithologists have long recognised a relationship between bill morphology and the ecological niche between species. This general relationship was described for the genus Parus over 30 years ago. Recently, the long-held assumption that the relationship was adaptive in this genus (and in the Great tit in particular) has been questioned. This study examines the evidence that bill variation is adaptive (ie: contributes to fitness) in the marked Great tit population of Wytham Wood, Oxford, U.K...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1987
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
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English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
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- Source identifiers:
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602830337
- Deposit date:
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2012-05-08
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Gosler, Andrew
- Copyright date:
- 1987
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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