The box turtle room with a view on species decline

American Biology Teacher

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 510-513

  Belzer, Bill ^a,c   Steisslinger, Mary Beth ^b,c  

^a CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ALTER Environmental Group   (United States)

^c Box Turtle Repatriation Project   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TERRAPENE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0033239165     PISSN: 00027685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4450753     Document Type: Article

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