THE ROLE OF PLANTATIONS OF THE AFRICAN PALM (ELAEIS GUINEENSIS JACQ.) IN THE CONSERVATION OF SNAKES IN COLOMBIA

Monocultures of the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) were studied between 2006 and 2013 so as to determine which species of snakes frequented them and to estimate the abundances of each species encountered. Thirty five species of snakes (three boas, one coral, 27 colubrids, one tropidophid...

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Main Author: JOHN D. LYNCH
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2015-06-01
Series:Caldasia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0366-52322015000100012&lng=en&tlng=en