Two syntopic colubrid snakes differ in their energetic requirements and in their use of space

Herpetologica

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 358-364

  Lelièvre, Herve ^a,b,d   Moreau, Coraline ^a   Blouin Demers, Gabriel ^c   Bonnet, Xavier ^a   Lourdais, Olivier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d CERA Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Activity; Energetics; Home range; Reproduction; Snakes; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; DIVERGENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; MATE LOCATION; MOVEMENT; SNAKE; SPACE USE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867306034     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-12-00007.1     Document Type: Article

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