Notes and discussion: Size-biased mortality due to predation in a nesting freshwater turtle, Trachemys scripta

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 198-203

  Tucker, John K ^a   Filoramo, Nirvana I ^b,c   Janzen, Fredric J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; NESTING; PREDATION; SURVIVORSHIP;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EMYDIDAE; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA;

EID: 0032961278     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(1999)141[0198:SBMDTP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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