Comparative water snake ecology: Conservation of mobile animals that use temporally dynamic resources

Biological Conservation

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-89

  Roe, John H ^a,b   Kingsbury, Bruce A ^a   Herbert, Nathan R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Diet; Management; Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta; Nerodia sipedon sipedon; Radiotelemetry; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; MOBILITY; SNAKE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TELEMETRY;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; NERODIA; NERODIA ERYTHROGASTER; NERODIA ERYTHROGASTER NEGLECTA; NERODIA SIPEDON; NERODIA SIPEDON SIPEDON; SERPENTES;

EID: 1842535918     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2003.07.010     Document Type: Article

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