Preliminary observations on foraging mode in a community of house geckos on Tahiti and a comment on competition

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-96

  Werner, Y L ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Foraging mode; Geckos; Gehyra mutilata; Gehyra oceanica; Hemidactylus frenatus; Lepidodactylus lugubris; Pacific islands; Resource partitioning; Sympatry; Syntopy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIZARD; NICHE PARTITIONING;

FRENCH POLYNESIA;

GEHYRA MUTILATA; GEHYRA OCEANICA; HEMIDACTYLUS FRENATUS; LEPIDODACTYLUS LUGUBRIS;

EID: 0032317174     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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