Monitoring nutrition of a large grazer: muskoxen on the Arctic Refuge

International Congress Series

Volumn 1275, Issue , 2004, Pages 327-333

  Barboza, Perry S ^a   Reynolds, Patricia E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b Arctic National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Copper; Population dynamics; Ruminant; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645803648     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ics.2004.09.040     Document Type: Article

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