Patterns of reproductive allocation: Clutch and egg size variation in three freshwater turtles

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 2005, Pages 868-879

  Wilkinson, Lucas Rand ^a   Gibbons, J Whitfield ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG SIZE; LIFE HISTORY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TURTLE;

KINOSTERNON SUBRUBRUM; PSEUDEMYS CONCINNA FLORIDANA; STERNOTHERUS ODORATUS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 30344482878     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2005)005[0868:PORACA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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