Lying in wait for extinction: Ecological correlates of conservation status among Australian elapid snakes

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 451-461

  Reed Richard Shine, Robert N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; SNAKE; VULNERABILITY;

ELAPIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 0036228685     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.02283.x     Document Type: Article

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