Building better wildlife-habitat models

Ecography

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 219-

  Beutel, T S ^a   Beeton, R J S ^b   Baxter, G S ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032962847     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1999.tb00471.x     Document Type: Review

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