Impacts of Roads, Hunting, and Habitat Alteration on Nocturnal Mammals in African Rainforests

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  2008-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00917.xPMID 18477030
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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