Dietary overlap between the irish mountain hare Lepus timidus hibernicus and the rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus on coastal grassland

Biology and Environment

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 89-95

  Wolfe, Alan ^a   Whelan, John ^a   Hayden, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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RANGING BEHAVIOUR;

EID: 0030319176     PISSN: 07917945     EISSN: 2009003X     Source Type: Journal    
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