The impact of bush-rock removal on an endangered snake species, Hoplocephalus bungaroides (Serpentes: Elapidae)

Wildlife Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 285-295

  Shine, Richard ^a   Webb, Jonathan K ^a   Fitzgerald, Mark ^a   Sumner, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT LOSS;

AUSTRALIA;

ELAPIDAE; HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES; OEDURA LESUEURII; SERPENTES;

EID: 0032455421     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR97022     Document Type: Article

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