Hot rocks or no hot rocks: Overnight retreat availability and selection by a diurnal lizard

Oecologia

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 329-335

  Sabo, John L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat selection; Retreat site; Riparian; Sceloporus occidentalis; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

HABITAT SELECTION; LIZARD; RADIOTELEMETRY; SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GEOLOGY; LIZARD; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GEOLOGY; LIZARDS; MALE; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE;

UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; RIPARIA; SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0041695559     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1292-6     Document Type: Article

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