Do volatile repellents reduce wolverine Gulo gulo predation on sheep?

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 119-126

  Landa, Arild ^a   Tømmerås, Bjørn Åge ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Gulo gulo; Norway; olfactory repellents; predation; sheep; wolverine

Indexed keywords

AVES; GULO GULO; MUSTELINAE; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0029858882     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.1996.041     Document Type: Article

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