Dung survey bias and elephant population estimates in southern Mozambique

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  African Journal of Ecology

• Publication date

  2009-06-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1365-2028.2008.00983.X
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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