Document Type
Thesis
Date of Degree Completion
Summer 1971
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Biology
Committee Chair
Phillip C. Dumas
Second Committee Member
Jared Verner
Third Committee Member
Curt A. Wiberg
Abstract
A study by Gans, Krakauer and Paganelli (1968) dealt with twenty-six species of snakes representing five families. They found that the "rate of water loss was proportional to surface area" and that water loss correlates with the aridity of the selected habitat. No comparative information resulting from the direct separation of the pulmonary and cutaneous avenues of water loss is currently available. Also, no direct comparisons of this separation in sympatric species are available. These comparisons are the basis for this study.
Recommended Citation
Woolery, Donald R., "Evaporative Water Loss in Two Northwest Snakes: Pituophis catenifer and Crotalus viridis" (1971). All Master's Theses. 1712.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/1712
Language
English
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