Moving Day and Night: Highly Labile Diel Activity Patterns in a Tropical Snake

Biotropica

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 554-559

  Abom, Rickard ^a   Bell, Kris ^a   Hodgson, Lauren ^a   Schwarzkopf, Lin ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diel activity; Dry tropics; Environmental temperatures; Keelback snake; Seasonal wetland; Tropidonophis mairii

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BODY TEMPERATURE; DIEL VARIATION; MOVEMENT; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNAKE;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; SERPENTES; TROPIDONOPHIS MAIRII;

EID: 84863469915     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00853.x     Document Type: Article

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