Home-range characteristics of an alpine lizard, Niveoscincus microlepidotus (Scincidae), on Mt Wellington, southern Tasmania

Wildlife Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 263-270

  Melville, Jane ^a   Swain, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; HOME RANGE; LIZARD; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA; MOUNT WELLINGTON; TASMANIA;

NIVEOSCINCUS MICROLEPIDOTUS;

EID: 0033053765     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR98040     Document Type: Article

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