Foraging ecology of rainbow skinks (Mabuya margaritifer) in Southern Africa

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 2002, Pages 943-957

  Wymann, Monica N ^a,b   Whiting, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIZARD; OUTCROP; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

(SOUTHERN); AFRICA;

AMPHIBIA; ISOPTERA; MABUYA; MABUYA MARGARITIFER; REPTILIA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037207180     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2002)002[0943:FEORSM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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