Geographic and size-related variation in the diet of insular populations of the Northern Watersnake

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 418-424

  Bowen, Kenneth D ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DIET; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; PREY SELECTION; PREY SIZE; SNAKE;

BEAVER ISLANDS; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AMPHIBIA; CASTOR FIBER; COTTUS; NERODIA; NERODIA SIPEDON; NERODIA SIPEDON SIPEDON; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 7744234193     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2004)152[0418:GASVIT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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