Comparative ecology of giant pandas in the five mountain ranges of their distribution in China

Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 137-148

  Jinchu, Hu ^a   Wei, Fuwen ^b  

^a Sichuan Normal College   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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