Human recreation and the nesting ecology of a freshwater turtle (Chrysemys picta)

Chelonian Conservation and Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-100

  Bowen, Kenneth D ^a,b   Janzen, Fredric J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 50249158062     PISSN: 10718443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2744/CCB-0650.1     Document Type: Article

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