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Habitat use by the Persian onager, Equus hemionus onager (Perissodactyla: Equidae) in Qatrouyeh National Park, Fars, Iran

  • 1. Department of Environment and Energy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran;
  • 2. Department of Natural Resources, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran;
  • 3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

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Nowzari, Haniyeh, Hemami, Mahmoudreza, Karami, Mahmoud, Zarkesh, Mir Masoud Kheirkhah, Riazi, Borhan, Rubenstein, Daniel I. (2013): Habitat use by the Persian onager, Equus hemionus onager (Perissodactyla: Equidae) in Qatrouyeh National Park, Fars, Iran. Journal of Natural History 47 (43-44): 2795-2814, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.802040, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2013.802040

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