A reciprocal transplant study of activity, body size, and winter survivorship in juvenile lizards from two sites at different altitude

Ecoscience

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 298-304

  Iraeta, Pablo ^a   Salvador, Alfredo ^b   Díaz, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drought; Food scarcity; Geographic variation; Maternal trade offs; Psammodromus; Reproductive strategies

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BODY SIZE; DROUGHT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; HIBERNATION; JUVENILE; LIZARD; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE SCARCITY; SURVIVORSHIP;

PSAMMODROMUS; PSAMMODROMUS ALGIRUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 54249166224     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/15-3-3119     Document Type: Article

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