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A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation
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- 1. Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) and Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) j.decher@leibniz-zfmk.de
- 2. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH 45804 (USA) ryanwnorris@gmail.com
- 3. Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc., Monrovia Office: Unit 102, Wazni Building, 13th Street and Tubman Boulevard, Sinkor, Monrovia (Liberia)
- 4. Wildlife Division, Forestry Commission, P. O. Box M239, Accra (Ghana)
- 5. Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany)
- 6. Philosophenweg 12, 77654 Offenburg (Germany)
- 7. Department of Biogeography, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, D-54296 Trier (Germany)
- 8. Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) wkilpatr@uvm.edu
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Decher, Jan, Norris, Ryan W., Abedi-Lartey, Michael, Oppong, James, Hutterer, Rainer, Weinbrenner, Martin, Koch, Martin, Podsiadlowski, Lars, Kilpatrick, C. William (2021): A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation. Zoosystema 43 (14): 253-281, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14
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