Effects of rattlesnake roundups on the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus)

Herpetological Conservation and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 132-141

  Means, D Bruce ^a  

^a Coastal Plains Institute and Land Conservancy ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Claxton; Eastern diamondback rattlesnake; Fitzgerald; Opp; Roundup; Whigham

Indexed keywords

CROTALUS; CROTALUS ADAMANTEUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 70349622816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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