Home ranges of sympatric red-necked wallabies, redbellied pademelons and common brushtail possums in a temperate eucalypt forestry environment

Australian Mammalogy

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-191

  Le Mar, Kirsten ^a   McArthur, Clare ^a   Statham, Mick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecology; Macropus rufogriseus; Marsupials; Radio Telemetry; Thylogale billardierii trichosurus vulpecula

Indexed keywords

EID: 28444499774     PISSN: 03100049     EISSN: 18367402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/am03183     Document Type: Article

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