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A wood-concrete nest box to study burrow-nesting petrels


Authors

YULIANA BEDOLLA-GUZMÁN1,2, JUAN F. MASELLO1, ALFONSO AGUIRRE-MUÑOZ2 & PETRA QUILLFELDT1
1Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, 35392 Giessen, Germany
2Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A.C., Moctezuma 836, Zona Centro, 22800, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico (yuliana.bedolla@islas.org.mx) 

Citation

BEDOLLA-GUZMÁN, Y., MASELLO, J.F., AGUIRRE-MUÑOZ, A., & QUILLFELDT, P. 2016. A wood-concrete nest box to study burrow-nesting petrels. Marine Ornithology 44: 249 - 252

Received 6 July 2016, accepted 31 August 2016

Date Published: 2016/10/15
Date Online: 2017/02/28

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