Spatial and trophic resource partitioning among an insectivorous lizard community in the central Jbilet mountains (Western Marocco);Partage des ressources spatiales et trophiques au sein d'un peuplement de lezards insectivores des jbilets centrales (Maroc occidental)

Revue d'Ecologie (La Terre et la Vie)

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 141-160

  Znari, Mohammed ^a   Mouden, El Hassan El ^a   Benfaida, Hilal ^a   Boumezzough, Ali ^a  

^a CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INSECTIVORE; LIZARD; PARTITIONING;

AFRICA; JBILET MOUNTAINS; MAROCCO;

ACANTHODACTYLUS ERYTHRURUS; AGAMA IMPALEARIS; CHALCIDES POLYLEPIS; EUMECES ALGERIENSIS; MESALINA SIMONI; SAURODACTYLUS BROSSETI; TARENTOLA MAURITANICA;

EID: 0033941755     PISSN: 02497395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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