Home-range studies in a reintroduced brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) population in the Grampians National Park, Victoria

Australian Mammalogy

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 128-134

  Molyneux, Jenny ^a,b   Taggart, David A ^a,b   Corrigan, Anthony ^c   Frey, Sean ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Royal Zoological Society of South Australia ^*  (Australia)

^c Ecodiversity   (Australia)

^d PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

activity patterns; macropodid; marsupial; radio tracking; social organisation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MACROPODIDAE; METATHERIA; PETROGALE PENICILLATA;

EID: 80052853764     PISSN: 03100049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AM10039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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