Adaptive sex ratios: Another example?

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 818-825

  Smith, Bruce L ^a   Robbins, Russell L ^a,c   Anderson, Stanley H ^b  

^a National Elk Refuge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c Box 50 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cervus elaphus; elk; nutrition; sex ratios; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029976288     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382687     Document Type: Article

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