Top Carnivores in the Suburbs? Ecological and Conservation Issues Raised by Colonization of North eastern North America by Coyotes
Author:
- Matthew E. GompperMGMatthew E. Gompper
Open Access
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 52 (2) , 185-190
Abstract
Just a handful of individual members of a population of top predators—wolves and tigers, orcas, and great white sharks, for example—hold the potential to disproKeywords
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