Lizard community structure across a grassland - Creosote bush ecotone in the Chihuahuan Desert

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1829-1838

  Menke, Sean B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

ECOTONES; GRASSLANDS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOTONE; GRASSLAND; LIZARD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; DONA ANA COUNTY; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ASPIDOSCELIS; ASPIDOSCELIS TIGRIS; ASPIDOSCELIS UNIPARENS; COPHOSAURUS TEXANUS; CROTAPHYTUS; CROTAPHYTUS COLLARIS; EUMECES; EUMECES OBSOLETUS; GAMBELIA WISLIZENII; HOLBROOKIA; HOLBROOKIA MACULATA; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; PHRYNOSOMA; PHRYNOSOMA CORNUTUM; REPTILIA; SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS MAGISTER; SQUAMATA; TRIDENTATA; UTA; UTA STANSBURIANA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 1342268917     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z03-184     Document Type: Article

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