Sea SnakesKrieger Publishing Company, 1999 - 148 sivua This text describes the varieties and distribution of sea snakes, what they eat and what eats them, how they reproduce and grow, and how they cope with excess salt and scarcity of freshwater. It also discusses how they adjust to diving at depth, and describes the nature of their venom. |
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... assemblage , an algal assemblage , a mollusc assemblage , and so on , often including a snake assemblage . Different species in an assemblage use available resources in different ways and the degree of overlap in requirements among them ...
... assemblage , an algal assemblage , a mollusc assemblage , and so on , often including a snake assemblage . Different species in an assemblage use available resources in different ways and the degree of overlap in requirements among them ...
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... assemblage and found that if two species have very similar diets and specialise on the same kind of prey , they usually have different spatial requirements and occupy different microhabitats . Conversely , species that occupy the same ...
... assemblage and found that if two species have very similar diets and specialise on the same kind of prey , they usually have different spatial requirements and occupy different microhabitats . Conversely , species that occupy the same ...
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... assemblages . Additional studies are required before it is even known whether the structuring described above applies to marine snake assem- blages generally or only to the few that have been investigated so far . An assemblage is said ...
... assemblages . Additional studies are required before it is even known whether the structuring described above applies to marine snake assem- blages generally or only to the few that have been investigated so far . An assemblage is said ...
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PREFACE | 1 |
The Kinds of Sea Snakes 5 Origin and Evolution of Sea Snakes | 8 |
Regional Distributions | 18 |
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