Environmental effects on fitness and consequences for sex allocation in a reptile with environmental sex determination

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 953-967

  Freedberg, Steven ^a   Ewert, Michael A ^a   Nelson, Craig E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chelydra serpentina; Graptemys ouachitensis; Nest site inheritance; Sex ratio; Temperature dependent sex determination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041370236     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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