Lipid dynamics in the viperine snake, Natrix maura, from the Ebro Delta (NE Spain)

Oikos

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 132-140

  Santos, Xavier ^a   Llorente, Gustavo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; ENERGY USE; LIPID; REPRODUCTION; SNAKE;

CATALONIA; EBRO DELTA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TARRAGONA [CATALONIA];

AMPHIBIA; NATRIX; NATRIX MAURA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542438839     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12222.x     Document Type: Article

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