Shapes and sizes of badger territories

Oikos

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 392-398

  Blackwell, P G ^a   Macdonald, D W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUP SIZE; MAMMAL; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TERRITORY;

MELES MELES;

EID: 0034021019     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.890221.x     Document Type: Article

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