Photographic identification in reptiles: A matter of scales

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 489-502

  Sacchi, Roberto ^a   Scali, Stefano ^b   Pellitteri Rosa, Daniele ^a   Pupin, Fabio ^a   Gentilli, Augusto ^a   Tettamanti, Serena ^b   Cavigioli, Luca ^b   Racina, Luca ^a   Maiocchi, Veronica ^a   Galeotti, Paolo ^a   Fasola, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Museo Civico di Storia Naturale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; individual identification; Lacerta bilineata; lizards; marking; photographic identification; Podarcis muralis

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE METHOD; DATA SET; IDENTIFICATION KEY; LIZARD; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; ORNAMENTATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; SOFTWARE;

LACERTA BILINEATA; PODARCIS MURALIS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 78149335638     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: 15685381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/017353710X521546     Document Type: Article

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