Exclusive core areas in overlapping ranges of the sleepy lizard, Tiliqua rugosa

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 380-391

  Kerr, Gregory D ^a   Bull, C Michael ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Home range territory continuum; Lizard; Population spacing system; Sex; Social structure

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL INTERACTION BY SPECIES; HOME RANGE; LIZARD; RADIO; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA; SQUAMATA; TRACHYDOSAURUS RUGOSUS;

EID: 33645710898     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arj041     Document Type: Article

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