Changes in grouping patterns of saiga antelope in relationto intrinsic and environmental factors in Mongolia

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  • B. Buuveibaatar
  • T. K. Fuller
  • J. K. Young
  • Andrew Kitchener
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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, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA 6 Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY, USA

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تاریخ انتشار 2013