Calving location selection patterns of saiga antelope in Mongolia
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Changes in grouping patterns of saiga antelope in relationto intrinsic and environmental factors in Mongolia
1 Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA 2 Mongolia Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 3 Mongolia Program Office, World Wide Fund for Nature, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 4 USDA-WS-National Wildlife Research Center and the Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA 5 Organismal Biology and Ecology,...
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