Evaluating basking-habitat deficiency in the threatened eastern massasauga rattlesnake

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 504-513

  Shoemaker, Kevin T ^a   Gibbs, James P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Basking site restoration; Crypsis; Eastern massasauga rattlesnake; Habitat management; New York; Operative temperature; Sistrurus catenatus; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOREST CANOPY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT RESTORATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MICROHABITAT; POPULATION DENSITY; SHRUB; SNAKE; SOLAR POWER; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOREGULATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

CROTALUS; REPTILIA; SISTRURUS; SISTRURUS CATENATUS; SISTRURUS CATENATUS CATENATUS;

EID: 77950287785     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2008-519     Document Type: Article

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