Changes in Mammalian Body Length over 175 Years—Adaptations to a Fragmented Landscape?

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Conservation Ecology

• Publication date

  2003-08-21

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.5751/ES-00520-070206
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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