Diets of savanna ungulates from stable carbon isotope composition of faeces

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Journal of Zoology

• Publication date

  2007-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1469-7998.2007.00292.X
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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