Snakes don't shrink, but 'shrinkage' is an almost inevitable outcome of measurement error by the experimenters

Oikos

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 199-202

  Luiselli, Luca ^a  

^a FIZV (Ecology)   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MORPHOMETRY; SNAKE;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

BOA (GENUS); ELAPIDAE; IGUANIA; PYTHONIDAE; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VIPERINAE;

EID: 20444408076     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.14034.x     Document Type: Review

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