Home Range Utilisation and Long-Range Movement of Estuarine Crocodiles during the Breeding and Nesting Season

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Campbell, Hamish A ^a   Dwyer, Ross G ^a   Irwin, Terri R ^b   Franklin, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Australia Zoo Queensland   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCODILE; CROCODYLUS POROSUS; ESTUARINE SPECIES; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HOME RANGE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; TERRITORIALITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; AUSTRALIA; CROCODILIAN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SEASON;

ANIMALIA; CROCODYLUS POROSUS;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BREEDING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; RIVERS; SEASONS;

EID: 84877076082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062127     Document Type: Article

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