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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Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2015-06-01
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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 |