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Environmental Determination of Insular Variation in Bird Species Abundance in the Gulf of Guinea

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HAMILTON, T., ARMSTRONG, N. Environmental Determination of Insular Variation in Bird Species Abundance in the Gulf of Guinea. Nature 207, 148–151 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207148a0

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