Long-term population trends of colonial wading birds in the southern united states: The impact of crayfish aquaculture on Louisiana populations

Auk

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 613-632

  Fleury, Bruce E ^a   Sherry, Thomas W ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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