Relationships between sexual dimorphism and niche partitioning within a clade of sea-snakes (Laticaudinae)

Oecologia

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-53

  Shine, R ^a   Reed, R N ^a   Shetty, S ^a   Cogger, H G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diet; Laticauda colubrina; Laticauda frontalis; Niche; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

DIETARY OVERLAP; NICHE PARTITIONING; PREY SIZE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SNAKE;

VANUATU;

AMPHIBIA; ANGUILLIFORMES; COLUBRINA; CONGER; HYDROPHIINAE; LATICAUDA; LATICAUDA COLUBRINA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0036934198     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1012-7     Document Type: Article

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