Temporal response of the tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) to 3,000 years of climatic variation

BMC Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Bruzgul, Judsen E ^a   Long, Webb ^a,b   Hadly, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM; AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; TIME; URODELA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; TIME FACTORS; URODELA;

EID: 26444433173     PISSN: 14726785     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-5-7     Document Type: Article

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