Effects of shoreline vegetation on visibility of American crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) during spotlight surveys

Herpetological Review

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-40

  Cherkiss, Michael S ^a   Mazzotti, Frank J ^a   Rice, Kenneth G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; CROCODYLUS ACUTUS;

EID: 33645783910     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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