Home Range, Spatial Overlap, and Burrow Use of the Desert Tortoise in the West Mojave Desert

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Copeia

• Publication date

  2009-06-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1643/CE-07-226
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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