In search of forage: predicting dynamic habitats of Mongolian gazelles using satellite-based estimates of vegetation productivity
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1 Smithsonian Institution, National Zoological Park, Conservation & Research Center, 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA; 2 Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; 3 Department of Natural Resources Conservation, 160 Holdsworth Way, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA; 4 Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460, USA; 5 Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
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