Faster but not stickier: Invasive house geckos can out-sprint resident mournful geckos in Moorea, French Polynesia

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 194-197

  Niewiarowski, Peter H ^a   Stark, Alyssa ^a   McClung, Brandon ^a   Chambers, Briana ^a   Sullivan, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEKKONIDAE; HEMIDACTYLUS; HEMIDACTYLUS FRENATUS; LEPIDODACTYLUS LUGUBRIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863917511     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/11-148     Document Type: Article

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