Abundance of sea kraits correlates with precipitation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Lillywhite, Harvey B ^a   Tu, Ming Chung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLUID BALANCE; LATICAUDA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAIWAN; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BUNGARUS; ELAPIDAE; RAIN;

EID: 83355168953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028556     Document Type: Article

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