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Owen T. Gorman, Roland R. Roth, Consequences of a Temporally and Spatially Variable Food Supply for an Unexploited Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) Population, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), pp. 41-60
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