Design and construction of an outdoor enclosure for the study of snake thermal ecology

Herpetological Review

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 24-26

  Lee, John R ^a,b   Mills, Mark S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^c 500 E College   (United States)

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