Effects of toe-clipping and PIT-tagging on growth and survival in metamorphic Ambystoma opacum

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 344-348

  Ott, Jeannine A ^a,b   Scott, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA OPACUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032732977     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565740     Document Type: Article

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