Managing disease threats to wild mammals

Animal Conservation

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 185-193

  Woodroffe, Rosie ^a,b  

^a Department of Zoology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0000311974     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943099000517     Document Type: Article

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