Dietary adaptation of reintroduced yellow-footed rock-wallabies, Petrogale xanthopus xanthopus (Marsupialia: Macropodidae), in the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Wildlife Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 195-201

  Lapidge, Steven J ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DIET; MARSUPIAL; REINTRODUCTION;

AUSTRALIA;

ABUTILON; PETROGALE XANTHOPUS; PTILOTUS OBOVATUS; SIDA PETROPHILA; SOLANUM;

EID: 0034000521     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR97124     Document Type: Article

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