Long‐Term Impacts of Poaching on Relatedness, Stress Physiology, and Reproductive Output of Adult Female African Elephants

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  2008-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01035.xPMID 18759771
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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