The Mednyi Arctic foxes: Treating a population imperilled by disease

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Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 251-258

  Goltsman, M ^a   Kruchenkova, E P ^b   Macdonald, D W ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ALOPEX LAGOPUS; CANIDAE; LAGOPUS; OTODECTES CYNOTIS; VULPES; MAMMALIA;

ANTIPARASITIC DRUG; ARCTIC FOX; CUB MORTALITY; DISEASE; ENDANGERED MAMMAL; MITE;

PACIFIC, COMMANDER ISLANDS, MEDNYI ISLAND;

EID: 0030303629     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0030605300021748     Document Type: Article

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