The race goes to the swift: Fitness consequences of variation in sprint performance in juvenile lizards

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-75

  Miles, Donald B ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Fitness; Lizard; Locomotor performance; Survivorship; Urosaurus ornatus

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APUS APUS; SQUAMATA; UROSAURUS; UROSAURUS ORNATUS;

EID: 0442313265     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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