Visible implant elastomer marking does not affect short-term movements or survival rates of the treefrog litoria rheocola

Herpetologica

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-33

  Sapsford, Sarah J ^a   Roznik, Elizabeth A ^a   Alford, Ross A ^a   Schwarzkopf, Lin ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Common Mistfrog; Harmonic Direction Tracking; Recapture rate; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894535779     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-13-0004     Document Type: Article

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