Persistent low densities of plains ungulates in Etosha National Park, Namibia: testing the food-regulating hypothesis

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Canadian Journal of Zoology

• Publication date

  1996-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1139/Z96-170
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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