Escape tactics of two syntopic forms of the Lacerta perspicillata complex with different colour patterns

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1594-1603

  Carretero, Miguel A ^a   Vasconcelos, Raquel ^a,b   Fonseca, Miguel ^a   Kaliontzopoulou, Antigoni ^a,c   Brito, José C ^a   Harris, D James ^a,b   Perera, Anna ^d  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ANTIPREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION PRESSURES;

BIODIVERSITY;

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COEVOLUTION; COLOR MORPH; CRYPSIS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

AVES; LACERTA PERSPICILLATA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; TEIRA PERSPICILLATA;

EID: 33947207857     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z06-154     Document Type: Article

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