Growing apart together: The development of contrasting sexual size dimorphisms in sympatric Sceloporus lizards

Herpetologica

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 245-257

  Cox, Robert M ^a,b   John Alder, Henry B ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic size; Body size; Growth model; Growth rate; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIZARD; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MIGRATION; ONTOGENY; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SURVIVORSHIP; SYMPATRY;

SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS JARROVII; SCELOPORUS VIRGATUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 34547817065     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[245:GATTDO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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