Population consequences of environmental sex reversal

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 196-206

  Cotton, Samuel ^a,b   Wedekind, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental sex reversal; Extinction; Population growth; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; POPULATION GROWTH; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SEX REVERSAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL;

AMPHIBIA; PISCES;

EID: 58249109449     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01053.x     Document Type: Article

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