Elevational variation in the thermal constraints on and microhabitat preferences of the greater earless lizard Cophosaurus texanus

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 1997, Pages 725-737

  Bashey, Farrah ^a   Dunham, Arthur E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; GREATER EARLESS LIZARD; HABITAT PREFERENCE; MICROHANITAT; THERMAL CONSTRAINTS;

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK; TEXAS; USA;

COPHOSAURUS TAXANUS; COPHOSAURUS TEXANUS; HOLBROOKIA; SPHENISCIFORMES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0031452722     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447290     Document Type: Article

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