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Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States pp 233–250Cite as

Taxonomy, Morphology, and Genetics of Wolves in the Great Lakes Region

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Tim Van Deelen very kindly volunteered to help me by running the canonical discriminant analysis. Cecilia A. Mauer prepared the figures.

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Nowak, R. (2009). Taxonomy, Morphology, and Genetics of Wolves in the Great Lakes Region. In: Wydeven, A.P., Van Deelen, T.R., Heske, E.J. (eds) Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85952-1_15

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