Chemical constituents of vole feces as indicators of bark use in sapling plantations

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 249-257

  Bergeron, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

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