The use of seedling bark by voles sustained by high proteinic content of food

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 259-266

  Bergeron, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

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