Growth of the tortoise Gopherus polyphemus in slash pine plantations of southcentral Alabama

Herpetologica

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 499-506

  Aresco, Matthew J ^a,b   Guyer, Craig ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gopher tortoise; Gopherus polyphemus; Growth; Habitat quality; Pine plantations; Testudines; Testudinidae; Von Bertalanffy model

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GROWTH; REPTILE;

UNITED STATES;

GOPHERUS POLYPHEMUS;

EID: 0033401089     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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