The Laptev Sea walrus Odobenus rosmarus laptevi: An enigma revisited

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-127

  Lindqvist, Charlotte ^a,b   Bachmann, Lutz ^a   Andersen, Liselotte W ^c   Born, Erik W ^d   Arnason, Ulfur ^e   Kovacs, Kit M ^f   Lydersen, Christian ^f   Abramov, Alexei V ^g   Wiig, Øystein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^g ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ODOBENIDAE; ODOBENUS; ODOBENUS ROSMARUS; ODOBENUS ROSMARUS DIVERGENS; ODOBENUS ROSMARUS LAPTEVI;

EID: 61349159188     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: 14636409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00364.x     Document Type: Article

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