Ecological Shifts in Sympatry: Kalahari Fossorial Lizards (Typhlosaurus)

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• Publication year

  1974

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  1974-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.2307/1935218
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