Differential avian predation on sex and size classes of small mammals: Doomed surplus or dominant individuals?

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 293-301

  Koivunen, Vesa ^a   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a   Hakkarainen, Harri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

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