Use of habitats and microenvironments by juvenile Florida box turtles, Terrapene carolina bauri, on Egmont Key

Herpetologica

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-10

  Jennings, Alison Hamilton ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Box turtle; Habitat use; Juvenile; Ontogenetic shifts; Terrapene carolina bauri; Threadspool trailing

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; JUVENILE; MICROHABITAT; ONTOGENY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURTLE;

EGMONT KEY; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

SCHINUS TEREBINTHIFOLIUS; TERRAPENE; TERRAPENE CAROLINA BAURI; TESTUDINES;

EID: 34247627868     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[1:UOHAMB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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