Correlated evolution of aquatic prey-capture strategies in European and American natricine snakes

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-83

  Bilcke, Joke ^a   Herrel, Anthony ^a   Van Damme, Raoul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diet; Foraging behaviour; Natrix maura; Natrix tesselata; Prey density; Strike velocity

Indexed keywords

DIET; POPULATION DENSITY; PREY CAPTURE; SNAKE;

NATRICINAE; NATRIX; NATRIX MAURA; SERPENTES;

EID: 33646237580     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00608.x     Document Type: Article

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