Chalk streams and grazing Mute Swans

British Wildlife

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 171-176

  Wood, Kevin A ^a   Stillman, Richard A ^a   Daunt, Francis ^b   O'Hare, Matthew T ^b  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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