No place like home: An experimental comparison of reintroduction strategies using snakes

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1253-1261

  Roe, John H ^a   Frank, Michael R ^a   Gibson, Scott E ^a   Attum, Omar ^b   Kingsbury, Bruce A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST   (United States)

Author keywords

Captive breeding; Head starting; Natal habitat preference induction; Nerodia sipedon; Radio telemetry; Repatriation; Reptile; Restoration; Survival probability; Translocation

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CAPTIVITY; HABITAT SELECTION; PROBABILITY; RADIOTELEMETRY; REINTRODUCTION; REPATRIATION; REPTILE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SNAKE; SURVIVAL; TRANSLOCATION;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; NERODIA SIPEDON; NERODIA SIPEDON SIPEDON; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 78149312284     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01886.x     Document Type: Article

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