Problem-Solving in Conservation Biology and Wildlife Management: Exercises for Class, Field, and Laboratory

Problem-Solving in Conservation Biology and Wildlife Management: Exercises for Class, Field, and Laboratory

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-328

  Gibbs, James P ^a   Hunter, Malcolm L ^a   Sterling, Eleanor J ^a  

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