How do water skinks avoid shelters already occupied by other lizards?

Behaviour

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 203-216

  Langkilde, Tracy ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Competition; Egernia; Eulamprus; Habitat use; Interspecific aggression

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EGERNIA; EGERNIA SAXATILIS; EULAMPRUS; EULAMPRUS HEATWOLEI; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 24344474506     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539053627659     Document Type: Article

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