Spring diet and trophic partitioning in an alpine lizard community from Morocco

African Zoology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-122

  Carretero, Miguel A ^a   Perera, Anna ^b   Harris, D James ^a   Batista, Vasco ^a,c   Pinho, Catarina ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Communities; Lacerta andreanszkyi; Lacerta perspicillata; Morocco; Podarcis vaucheri; Pseudocommunity analysis; Quedenfeldtia trachyblepharus; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIET; LIZARD; PREY AVAILABILITY;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

COLEOPTERA; GEKKONIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LACERTA; LACERTA PERSPICILLATA; LACERTIDAE; PODARCIS VAUCHERI; QUEDENFELDTIA TRACHYBLEPHARUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33745469297     PISSN: 15627020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3377/1562-7020(2006)41[113:SDATPI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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