Sunny side up: Lethally high, not low, nest temperatures may prevent oviparous reptiles from reproducing at high elevations

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 325-334

  Shine, Richard ^a   Elphick, Melanie J ^a   Barrott, Elizabeth G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geographical distribution; Lizard; Oviparity; Thermal; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LIZARD; REPRODUCTION; SNAKE; TEMPERATURE; VIVIPARITY;

BASSIANA; BASSIANA DUPERREYI; EULAMPRUS HEATWOLEI; REPTILIA; SCINCIDAE; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 0037364776     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00140.x     Document Type: Article

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