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Marine mammal faeces samples as indicators of prey importance - A source of error in bioenergetics studies

Malcolm Jobling Institutt for fiskerifag, Universitetet i Tromsö, Postboks 3083, Guleng, N-9001, Tromsö, Norway
Pages 255-260 | Accepted 21 Nov 1986, Published online: 21 Dec 2011

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