Rapid extinction of mountain sheep populations revisited

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 378-384

  Wehausen, John D ^a  

^a Visit Scho Dept Integrat Biol   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; EXTINCTION; UNGULATE;

UNITED STATES;

OVIS CANADENSIS;

EID: 0032905120     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.013002378.x     Document Type: Article

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