Nowhere to run: The role of habitat openness and refuge use in defining patterns of morphological and performance evolution in tropical lizards

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1535-1544

  Goodman, B A ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Comparative method; Ecomorphology; Habitat openness; Locomotion; Performance; Physiological ecology; Scincidae

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; REFUGE; SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; LIZARDS;

SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 67649197075     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01766.x     Document Type: Article

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