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On the Importance of Disturbed Sites to Habitat Selection by Pine Snakes in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Robert T. Zappalorti
Affiliation:
Herpetological Associates, Inc., Beachwood, New Jersey 08722, USA
Joanna Burger
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.

Abstract

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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1985

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