Home ranges of gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae) in central California

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 2, 2003, Pages 391-396

  Rodríguez Robles, Javier A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; HOME RANGE; MOVEMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNAKE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; COLUBRIDAE; EUCALYPTUS; PITUOPHIS; PITUOPHIS CATENIFER; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0038461890     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2003)003[0391:HROGSP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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