Survival of very small macropod pouch young following short-term isolation from the pouch at various environmental temperatures

Animal Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 275-282

  Taggart, David A ^a,b,c   Shimmin, Glenn A ^b   Underwood, Geoff ^d   Phillips, Kevin ^d  

^a Royal Zool Soc of South Australia ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE BREEDING; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; MARSUPIAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; MACROPUS EUGENII; PENICILLATA; PETROGALE PENICILLATA;

EID: 14044274368     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136794300200402X     Document Type: Article

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