Comparative effectiveness of two trapping techniques for surveying the abundance and diversity of reptiles and amphibians along drift fence arrays

Herpetological Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-42

  Jenkins, Christopher L ^a,b   McGarigal, Kevin ^a   Gamble, Lloyd R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0042977482     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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