Woodrat population dynamics and movement patterns

The Allegheny Woodrat: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of a Declining Species

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 45-62

  Wood, Petra Bohall ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-36051-5_3     Document Type: Chapter

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