Out on a limb: Conservation implications of tree-hollow use by a threatened snake species (Hoplocephalus bungaroides: Serpentes, Elapidae)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 21-33

  Webb, Jonathan K ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

arboreality; Australia; Elapidae; forest; habitat selection; Hoplocephalus bungaroides; Serpentes; snake

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ELAPIDAE; EUCALYPTUS PIPERITA; EUCALYPTUS PUNCTATA; HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES; MAMMALIA; MENTHA X PIPERITA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SYNCARPIA GLOMULIFERA; MYRTACEAE;

BROAD-HEADED SNAKE; GREY GUM; TREE HOLE; TURPENTINE;

AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES, MORTON NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 0030618236     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(96)00160-7     Document Type: Article

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