Sex‐specific growth in chicks of the sexually dimorphic Black‐tailed Godwit

@article{Loonstra2018SexspecificGI,  title={Sex‐specific growth in chicks of the sexually dimorphic Black‐tailed Godwit},  author={A. H. Jelle Loonstra and Mo A. Verhoeven and Theunis Piersma},  journal={Ibis},  year={2018},  volume={160},  pages={89-100},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:90880117}}
It is argued that in estimating growth curves for sexually dimorphic species, it is critical first to make accurate sex and age determinations, as conditions are limiting in the current agricultural landscape.

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