Wariness of caiman populations and its effect on abundance estimates

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 123-126

  Pacheco, Luis F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAIMAN;

EID: 0030424825     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1564725     Document Type: Article

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