Interspecific relationships between two species of sympatric Afrotropical water snake in relation to a seasonally fluctuating food resource

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Journal of Tropical Ecology

• Publication date

  2005-12-21

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1017/S0266467405002877
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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