Experimental analysis of body size and shape during critical life-history events of hatchling slider turtles, Trachemys scripta elegans

Functional Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1106-1114

  Myers, E M ^a   Tucker, J K ^b   Chandler, C H ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Geometric morphometrics; Performance; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; BODY SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVORSHIP; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; TURTLE;

TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS;

EID: 36248967682     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01337.x     Document Type: Article

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