Sea snakes rarely venture far from home

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1113-1121

  Lukoschek, Vimoksalehi ^a,b   Shine, Richard ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Demographic isolation; Live bearing; Marine reptile; Philopatry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867311310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.256     Document Type: Article

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