The eastern box turtle at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center 1940s to the present: Another view

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 773-776

  Henry, Paula F P ^a  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Box turtles; Terrapene

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOME RANGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFESPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; TURTLE; WILDLIFE;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; TERRAPENE; TERRAPENE CAROLINA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0038011343     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(03)00107-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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