The relative impact of a spring hunt on Snow Goose population dynamics

Occasional Paper of the Canadian Wildlife Service

Volumn , Issue 102, 2000, Pages 6-16

  Francis, Charles M ^a  

^a Bird Studies Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUNTING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; WATERFOWL;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0034008450     PISSN: 05766370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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