Hot Rocks and Not-So-Hot Rocks: Retreat-Site Selection by Garter Snakes and Its Thermal Consequences

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  1989-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2307/1941360
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