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Water Buffaloes grazing behaviour at the Lake Kerkini National Park, Northern Greece Cover

Water Buffaloes grazing behaviour at the Lake Kerkini National Park, Northern Greece

Hacquetia
Volume 15 (2016): Issue 2 (December 2016)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/hacq-2016-0015 | Journal eISSN: 1854-9829 | Journal ISSN: 1581-4661
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Language: English
Page range: 133 - 142
Submitted on: Dec 16, 2016
Accepted on: Apr 15, 2016
Published online: Aug 12, 2016
Published in print: Dec 1, 2016
Published by: Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
Bubalus bubalis,
grazing activities,
grasslands,
social behaviour
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Life sciences, other

© 2016 Eleni T. Tsiobani, Maria D. Yiakoulaki, Nikolaos D. Hasanagas, Georgios Menexes, Konstantinos Papanikolaou, published by Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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