Habitat differences affecting age class distributions of the hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 619-629

  Nickerson, Max A ^a   Krysko, Kenneth L ^a   Owen, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIUMA MEANS; ASTACOIDEA; CRYPTOBRANCHUS ALLEGANIENSIS;

EID: 22744452823     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1528-7092(2003)002[0619:HDAACD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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