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On territorial behavior and other factors influencing habitat distribution in birds

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  1. Stephen Dewitt Fretwell

    Present address: Department of Biology, Princeton University, 08540, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

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  1. Biomathematics Program, Department of Experimental Statistics, North Carolina State University, 27607, Raleigh, N.C., USA

    Stephen Dewitt Fretwell & Henry L. Lucas Jr.

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Work done while senior author was on fellowship support from Public Health Service Grant no. GM-678 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

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Fretwell, S.D., Lucas, H.L. On territorial behavior and other factors influencing habitat distribution in birds. Acta Biotheor 19, 16–36 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01601953

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