Habitat variation and lizard diversity in a Cerrado area of Central Brazil

Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 105-112

  Nogueira, Cristiano ^a   Valdujo, Paula H ^b   França, Frederico G R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerrado; Lizards; Local distribution; Richness; Squamata

Indexed keywords

SQUAMATA;

EID: 27644432574     PISSN: 01650521     EISSN: 17445140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01650520500129901     Document Type: Article

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