Fire regimes and the demography of the lizard Micrablepharus atticolus (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) in a biodiversity hotspot

South American Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 143-156

  De Sousa, Heitor C ^a   Soares, Ana Hermínia S B ^a   Costa, Bernardo M ^b   Pantoja, Davi L ^c   Caetano, Gabriel H ^d   De Queiroz, Tânia A D ^a   Colli, Guarino R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b Engineering Department   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerrado; Conservation; Detectability; Life history; Mark recapture; Population dynamics; Recruitment; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954230133     PISSN: 18089798     EISSN: 1982355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-15-00011.1     Document Type: Article

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