Habitat selection by translocated black howler monkeys in Belize

Animal Conservation

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 175-181

  Ostro, Linde E T ^a,c   Silver, Scott C ^a,c   Koontz, Fred W ^a   Young, Truman P ^b  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA CARAYA; ALOUATTA PIGRA;

EID: 0011488335     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943000000871     Document Type: Article

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