The role of guesswork in conserving the threatened sand skink

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 190-194

  McCoy, Earl D ^a   Sutton, Phillip E ^a   Mushinsky, Henry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LIZARD;

UNITED STATES;

NEOSEPS REYNOLDSI;

EID: 0033026317     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.97394.x     Document Type: Article

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