Black Rats, Island Characteristics, and Colonial Nesting Birds in the Mediterranean: Consequences of an Ancient Introduction

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• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  2000-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.99190.x
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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