Use of burrows by the endangered pygmy blue-tongue lizard, Tiliqua adelaidensis (Scincidae)

Wildlife Research

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 523-528

  Milne, Tim ^a,c   Bull, C Michael ^a   Hutchinson, Mark N ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c Nat Conserv Soc of SA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROW; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; LIZARD;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

ARANEAE; INVERTEBRATA; OVIS ARIES; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA; TILIQUA ADELAIDENSIS;

EID: 0346936041     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR02087     Document Type: Article

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