Spatial patterns and dynamic interactions among raccoons in eastern Kansas

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 116-121

  Gehrt, Stanley D ^a,c   Fox, Lloyd B ^b  

^a EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR;

EID: 1542647424     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2004)049<0116:SPADIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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