Thermal environment of overwintering ornate box turtles, Terrapene ornata ornata, in Iowa

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 370-377

  Bernstein, Neil P ^a   Black, Robert W ^b  

^a MOUNT MERCY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD TOLERANCE; EMERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; OVERWINTERING; THERMOREGULATION; TURTLE;

IOWA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

TERRAPENE; TERRAPENE ORNATA ORNATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 17644395299     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2005)153[0370:TEOOOB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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