Foraging responses of the endangered gouldian finch to temporal differences in seed availability in Northern Australian Savanna Grasslands

Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 218-235

  Lewis, Milton ^a  

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-45447-4_13     Document Type: Chapter

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