Effects of placing sticks in pitfall traps on amphibian and small mammal capture rates

Herpetological Review

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 282-284

  Perkins, Dustin W ^a   Hunter Jr , Malcolm L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036981175     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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