Post-breeding dispersal and summer home range of female American toads (Bufo americanus)

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-72

  Forester, Don C ^a   Snodgrass, Joel W ^a   Marsalek, Katherine ^a   Lanham, Zachary ^b  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO AMERICANUS;

EID: 33646142328     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1092-6194(2006)13[59:PDASHR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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