What makes a species vulnerable to extinction? Comparative life-history traits of two sympatric snakes

Ecological Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-67

  Webb, Jonathan K ^a   Brook, Barry W ^a   Shine, Richard ^b  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptophis nigrescens; Elasticity; Extinction; Hoplocephalus bungaroides; Life history

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; EXTINCTION RISK; LIFE HISTORY; SNAKE; SYMPATRY; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0037701338     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2002.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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