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Long-term isolation of a highly mobile seabird on the Galapagos.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Mar 2011
Hailer Frank, Schreiber E A, Miller Joshua M, Levin Iris I, Parker Patricia G, Chesser R Terry, Fleischer Robert C
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The Galapagos Islands are renowned for their high degree of endemism. Marine taxa inhabiting the archipelago might be expected to be an exception, because of their utilization of pelagic habitats-the dispersal barrier for terrestrial taxa-as foraging grounds. Magnificent frigatebirds (Fregata magnificens) have a highly vagile lifestyle and wide geographical distribution around the South and Central American...
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