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- Stephen Dewitt Fretwell
Present address: Department of Biology, Princeton University, 08540, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Authors and Affiliations
- 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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- 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
- Received: 17 October 1968
- Issue date: March 1969
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01601953