Effects of warming conditions in eastern North American forests on red-backed salamander morphology

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 913-917

  Gibbs, James P ^a   Karraker, Nancy E ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Climate change; Evolution; Forest disturbance; Morphology; Plethodon cinereus

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FOREST CLEARANCE; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; WARMING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; SALAMANDER; TREE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NORTH AMERICA; SALAMANDRIDAE; TREES;

NORTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; PLETHODON; PLETHODON CINEREUS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 33745176229     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00375.x     Document Type: Article

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