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Accurately quantifying the shape of birds’ eggs
Describing the range of avian egg shapes quantitatively has long been recognized as difficult. A variety of approaches has been adopted, some of which aim to capture the shape accurately and some to provide intelligible indices of shape. The objectives here are to show that a (four‐parameter) method...
Autores principales: | Biggins, John D., Thompson, Jamie E., Birkhead, Tim R. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6202712/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30386570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4412 |
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