Fertility control of mammal pests and the conservation of endangered marsupials

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-16

  Sinclair, A R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH CONTROL; BIRTH RATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOSYSTEM; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BUFFALOES; CONTRACEPTION; GOATS; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; MICE; PEST CONTROL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RABBITS; REPRODUCTION; SWINE;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 0030908283     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/R96057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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