Habitat use and fidelity in the striped plateau lizard sceloporus virgatus

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 68-80

  Smith, Geoffrey R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b Kellogg Biological Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCELOPORUS VIRGATUS;

EID: 0030041857     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2426873     Document Type: Article

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