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Is Cat Control Needed to Protect Urban Wildlife?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

B.M. Fitzgerald
Affiliation:
Ecology Division, DSIR Land Resources, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, PO Box 30379, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

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Short Communications & Reports
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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