Decline of an island fox subspecies to near extinction

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 32-41

  Coonan, Timothy J ^a   Schwemm, Catherin A ^a   Roemer, Gary W ^b   Garcelon, David K ^c   Munson, Linda ^d  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTREMUS TAENIATUS; AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; CANIDAE; CICONIIFORMES; RAPTORES; ROSA; UNCINARIA STENOCEPHALA; UROCYON LITTORALIS;

EID: 14844282803     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2005)050<0032:DOAIFS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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