Environmental and ecological factors influencing dive behaviour in the freshwater snake Acrochordus arafurae: a field-based telemetric study

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 560-567

  Pratt, Kirstin L ^a   Campbell, Hamish A ^a   Watts, Matthew E ^a   Franklin, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic telemetry; Aerobic dive limit; Body temperature; Dive depth; Predation

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; BIOTELEMETRY; BODY TEMPERATURE; DEPTH; DIVING BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FIELDWORK; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MONITORING; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; SNAKE; TIME ALLOCATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA;

ACROCHORDUS ARAFURAE; AVES; SERPENTES;

EID: 77952967073     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF09194     Document Type: Article

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