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Does fencing reduce the carrying capacity for populations of large herbivores?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

R. Ben-Shahar
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford 0X1 3PS, UK

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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