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Ray, Justina Coste.

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Resource use patterns among mongooses and other carnivores in a Central African rainforest.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Resource use patterns among mongooses and other carnivores in a Central African rainforest./
Author:	Ray, Justina Coste.
Description:	257 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-09, Section: B, page: 5410.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-09B.
Subject:	Biology, Ecology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9703599
ISBN:	9780591100839

Resource use patterns among mongooses and other carnivores in a Central African rainforest.
Ray, Justina Coste.

Resource use patterns among mongooses and other carnivores in a Central African rainforest. - 257 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-09, Section: B, page: 5410.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 1996.

Two years of research in the Dzanga-Sangha Reserve/Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic provided ecological data on an assemblage of eight sympatric Carnivora (including three herpestids, three viverrids, and two felids) and their resources. The 28 km

ISBN: 9780591100839Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017726
Biology, Ecology.

Resource use patterns among mongooses and other carnivores in a Central African rainforest.
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