Ecological light pollution

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 191-198

  Longcore, Travis ^a   Rich, Catherine ^a  

^a The Urban Wildlands Group   (United States)

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AVES; CHELONIIDAE;

EID: 33645276343     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2004)002[0191:ELP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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