Antibacterial and anatomical defenses in an oil contaminated, vulnerable seaduck
Abstract Oil spills have killed thousands of birds during the last 100 years, but nonlethal effects of oil spills on birds remain poorly studied. We measured phenotype characters in 819 eiders Somateria mollissima (279 whole birds and 540 wings) of which 13.6% were oiled. We tested the hypotheses th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7996 |