Use of urban landscape by coyotes

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-12

  Grubbs, Shannon E ^a   Krausman, Paul R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANIS LATRANS; PIMA;

EID: 67649557072     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/MLK-05.1     Document Type: Article

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