A survey of mammalian browsing damage in Tasmanian eucalypt plantations

Australian Forestry

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-65

  Bulinski, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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EID: 0001909559     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.1999.10674764     Document Type: Article

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