Magnetic compass: A useful tool underground

Subterranean Rodents: News from Underground

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 161-174

  Moritz, Regina E ^a   Burda, Hynek ^a   Begall, Sabine ^a   Němec, Pavel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69276-8_12     Document Type: Chapter

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