Spatial variation in predation attempts on artificial snakes in a fire-disturbed tallgrass prairie

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 263-270

  Wilgers, Dustin J ^a,b   Horne, Eva A ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAPTORES; SERPENTES;

EID: 34447250329     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2007)52[263:SVIPAO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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