Is body size of the water frog Rana esculenta complex responding to climate change?

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 110-113

  Tryjanowski, Piotr ^a   Sparks, Tim ^b   Rybacki, Mariusz ^c   Berger, Leszek ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECTOTHERMY; FROG;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; FROG; HYBRID GENE; LANDSCAPE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHENOTYPE; POLAND;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; FEMALE; MALE; RANA ESCULENTA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA ESCULENTA; RANA RIDIBUNDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644973478     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0085-2     Document Type: Article

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