Master of them all: Performance specialization does not result in trade-offs in tropical lizards

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 527-546

  Goodman, Brett A ^a   Krockenberger, Andrew K ^a   Schwarzkopf, Lin ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecomorphology; Habitat specialization; Performance; Skinks; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ANOLIS; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 34248174441     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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