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Effects of rainfall, forage biomass, and population density, on survival and growth of juvenile kangaroos

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Plaisir, Charles-Alexandre, King, Wendy J, Forsyth, David M, Festa-Bianchet, Marco (2022): Effects of rainfall, forage biomass, and population density, on survival and growth of juvenile kangaroos. Journal of Mammalogy 103 (3): 491-502, DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyab132, URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab132

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