Wildfire-induced mortality of Australian reptiles

Herpetology Notes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 233-235

  Smith, Annabel ^a   Meulders, Brendon ^b   Michael Bull, C ^b   Driscoll, Don ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPTILIA;

EID: 84876305929     PISSN: 20715773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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