Impacts of the Brown Tree Snake: Patterns of Decline and Species Persistence in Guam's Avifauna

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  2003

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  2003-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01526.x
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