Selection of habitat components by two species of agamid lizards in sandridge desert, central Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 825-833

  Daly, Benjamin G ^a   Dickman, Chris R ^a   Crowther, Mathew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agamid; Dragon; Ecological separation; Habitat selection; Observation; Spinifex

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; LIZARD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PITFALL TRAP; RANGE EXPANSION; SAND RIDGE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SIMPSON DESERT;

AGAMIDAE; CTENOPHORUS ISOLEPIS; CTENOPHORUS NUCHALIS; SPINIFEX; SQUAMATA; TRIODIA BASEDOWII;

EID: 35248822627     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01768.x     Document Type: Article

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