Six ecological factors that may limit African wild dogs, Lycaon pictus

Animal Conservation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-9

  Creel, Scott ^a   Creel, Nancy Marusha ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CROCUTA CROCUTA; LYCAON PICTUS; PANTHERA LEO;

EID: 0003151726     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943098001012     Document Type: Article

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