Reptile road mortality around an oasis in the Illinois corn desert with emphasis on the endangered eastern Massasauga

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 2, 2008, Pages 350-359

  Shepard, Donald B ^a   Dreslik, Michael J ^b   Jellen, Benjamin C ^b,c   Phillips, Christopher A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; MAIZE; MATING BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; OASIS; REPTILE; ROAD; SNAKE; TURTLE;

CARLYLE LAKE; CLINTON COUNTY [ILLINOIS]; ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

COLUBRIDAE; REPTILIA; SISTRURUS CATENATUS; SISTRURUS CATENATUS CATENATUS; TESTUDINES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 47049103301     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CE-06-276     Document Type: Article

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