Testing Relationships between Energy and Vertebrate Abundance

International Journal of Ecology

Volumn 2009, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Carbone, Chris ^a   Pettorelli, Nathalie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79954547796     PISSN: 16879708     EISSN: 16879716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/496175     Document Type: Review

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