Home range size and habitat selection in the Florida pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus)

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 2012, Pages 706-713

  Miller, Gabriel J ^a,b   Smith, Lora L ^b   Johnson, Steve A ^a   Franz, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Joseph W Jones Ecological Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; MOVEMENT; RADIOTELEMETRY; RANGE SIZE; SNAKE;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; GEOMYS PINETIS; GEOMYS PINETUS; PINUS ELLIOTTII; PINUS PALUSTRIS; PITUOPHIS MELANOLEUCUS MUGITUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 84871455467     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CE-12-054     Document Type: Article

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