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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Lesser snow goose"”.
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Panmixia Across the Range of the Assortatively Mating Lesser Snow Goose
<p>The Lesser Snow Goose has been shown to exhibit imprinted positive assortative mating on the basis of its color phases, blue and white, and it has been proposed that the geographic cline of the color phases reflects a historic allopatry of the phases. Using ddRAD-seq, thousands of SNPs were …
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Effects of body size on goose behavior: lesser snow goose and Ross's goose
… by comparing the behavior and physiology of lesser snow geese (hereafter snow geese) and Ross's geese, which are closely related and highly sympatric throughout the annual cycle. I found that incubation constancies of both species averaged 99%. The defeathered ventral area was positively …
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Effects of an Increasing Lesser Snow Goose Population on Shorebird Foraging Ecology at La Perouse Bay, Manitoba
… caused by an increasing population of lesser snow geese, this study was initiated in 1997 to determine the effects of degradation on shorebird foraging ecology at La Perouse Bay. Sampling was conducted from June 1 - August 10, 1997 and June 4 - August 8, 1998. For temporal analysis each …
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Parasite-host interactions in an arctic goose colony
… of this parasite on Ross’s (Chen rossii) and lesser snow goose (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) reproductive success in the Karrak Lake goose colony, Nunavut, Canada from 2001 to 2004. The nest parasite, identified as the flea Ceratophyllus vagabundus vagabundus, was associated with goose eggs …