Fluorescent powder pigments as a harmless tracking method for ambystomatids and ranids

Herpetological Review

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 188-191

  Rittenhouse, Tracy A G ^a   Altnether, Timothy T ^a   Semlitsch, Raymond D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBYSTOMATIDAE; RANIDAE;

EID: 33845791002     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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