Indirect effects of feral horses on estuarine communities

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1364-1371

  Levin, Phillip S ^a,c   Ellis, Julie ^a   Petrik, Rachel ^a   Hay, Mark E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FERAL ORGANISM; SALTMARSH; UNGULATE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; PISCES; SPARTINA; UNGULATA;

EID: 0036793058     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.01167.x     Document Type: Article

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