Patterns of mortality in a cold-climate population of garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-210

  Shine, Richard ^a   Mason, Robert T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Conservation; Demography; Natural selection; Snake

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; SNAKE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMALIA; SERPENTES; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS PARIETALIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3543151402     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2004.02.014     Document Type: Article

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