Conservation of Australian arid-zone marsupials: Making use of knowledge of their energy and water requirements

Experimental Approaches to Conservation Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 122-131

  Hume, Ian D ^a   Gibson, Lesley A ^a   Lapidge, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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