Soil region effects on white-tailed deer forage protein content

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 595-606

  Jones, Phillip D ^a   Demarais, Stephen ^a   Strickland, Bronson K ^a   Edwards, Scott L ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks   (United States)

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CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 57649129008     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1528-7092-7.4.595     Document Type: Article

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