Demography of a southern population of the Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata)

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 391-400

  Litzgus, Jacqueline D ^a,b   Mousseau, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEMMYS GUTTATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 24344489078     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1528-7092(2004)003[0391:DOASPO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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