Effect of water constraint on growth rate, activity and body temperature of yearling common lizard (Lacerta vivipara)

Oecologia

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 423-430

  Lorenzon, Pauline ^a,b   Clobert, Jean ^a   Oppliger, Anne ^b   John Alder, Henry ^c  

^a UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Behavioural response; Environmental constraints; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; GROWTH RATE; LIZARD; WATER SUPPLY;

LACERTA VIVIPARA;

EID: 0032896032     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050744     Document Type: Article

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