Life-history perspective of adaptive radiation in desmognathine salamanders

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 1996, Pages 783-790

  Bruce, Richard C ^a,b  

^a WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Highlands Biological Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; DESMOGNATHINAE; DESMOGNATHUS;

EID: 0030469585     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447639     Document Type: Article

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