Movement patterns, activity, and home range of the eastern spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera) in Northern Lake Champlain, Québec, Vermont

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 402-411

  Galois, Patrick ^a   Léveillé, Martin ^a   Bouthillier, Lyne ^a   Daigle, Claude ^a   Parren, Steve ^a  

^a St Lawrence Valley Nat Hist Soc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APALONE SPINIFERA; APALONE SPINIFERA SPINIFERA; MYA ARENARIA; TESTUDINES; TRIONYCHIDAE;

EID: 0036747977     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/0022-1511(2002)036[0402:MPAAHR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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