Substrate shifts in a population of striped plateau lizards, Sceloporus virgatus

Herpetological Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 116-118

  Smith, Geoffrey R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCELOPORUS VIRGATUS;

EID: 0030808887     PISSN: 02680130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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