Improving search strategies for the cryptic New Zealand striped skink (Oligosoma striatum) through behavioural constrasts with the brown skink (Oligosoma zelandicum)

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-278

  Neilson, Keri ^a   Duganzich, David ^b   Goetz, Bernard ^c   Waas, Joseph R ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^b RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^c Reptile Research Centre   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Arboreal; Behaviour; Oligosoma; Search methods; Striped skink

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; HABITAT USE; LIZARD; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; SAMPLING; TRAPPING;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; WORLD;

OLIGOSOMA; OLIGOSOMA ZELANDICUM; RODENTIA; SCINCIDAE;

EID: 11844252096     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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