Home range sizes of irish mountain hares on coastal grassland

Biology and Environment

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 141-146

  Wolfe, Alan ^a   Hayden, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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HOME RANGE;

EID: 0030319892     PISSN: 07917945     EISSN: 2009003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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