Herpetological diversity along Andean elevational gradients: Links with physiological ecology and evolutionary physiology

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 469-485

  Navas, Carlos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Altitude; Anuran; Biodiversity; Evolutionary physiology; Lizard; Performance; Physiological ecology; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIODIVERSITY; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE; COLOMBIA; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FROGS AND TOADS; HUMIDITY; LATITUDE; LIZARD; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION; TROPICS; WATER SUPPLY; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; REVIEW;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; SQUAMATA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANURA; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; LIZARDS;

EID: 0036850009     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00207-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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