A short spring before a long jump: The ecological challenge to the steppe tortoise (Testudo horsfieldi)

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 493-502

  Lagarde, Frédéric ^a   Bonnet, Xavier ^a   Nagy, Ken ^a   Henen, Brian ^a   Corbin, Johanna ^a   Naulleau, Guy ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION STATISTICS;

RADIO-TRACKING;

BIODIVERSITY;

ACTIVITY PATTERN; EMERGENCE; HIBERNATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; REPRODUCTION; REPTILE;

UZBEKISTAN;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINIDAE; TESTUDO;

EID: 0036090474     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z02-032     Document Type: Article

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