Why the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas bowhead whale is endangered: Response to Shelden et al.

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 915-917

  Taylor, Martin ^a  

^a Center for Biological Diversity   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; CETACEA;

EID: 0038580533     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.02280.x     Document Type: Note

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