Size distributions sex ratios of colonizing lizards

Oecologia

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 501-509

  M'Closkey, Robert T ^a   Hecnar, Stephen J ^a   Chalcraft, David R ^a   Cotter, Jill E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body size distribution; Colonization; Dispersal; Phyrnosomatid lizards; Sex ratios

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; LIZARD; SEX RATIO; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES;

SCELOPORUS GRACIOSUS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; UROSAURUS ORNATUS; UTA STANSBURIANA;

EID: 0031786116     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050615     Document Type: Article

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