The food of foxes, dogs and cats on two peninsulas in Jervis Bay, New South Wales

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

Volumn 1998, Issue 120, 1998, Pages 117-127

  Meek, P D ^a,b   Triggs, B ^c  

^a State Forests of New South Wales   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^c Dead Finish   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cats; Dogs; Food items; Foxes; Jervis Bay; Predation; Scat analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006880990     PISSN: 0370047X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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