Nesting ecology in the freshwater turtle Podocnemis unifilis: Spatiotemporal patterns and inferred explanations

Functional Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 826-835

  Escalona, Tibisay ^a   Valenzuela, Nicole ^a   Adams, Dean C ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive nest site choice; Evolution; Fitness; Habitat selection; Oviparous; Pleurodiran reptile; Social facilitation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; HABITAT SELECTION; NESTING; OVIPARITY; SITE SELECTION; SURVIVAL; TURTLE;

PODOCNEMIS UNIFILIS; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 67649663716     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01562.x     Document Type: Article

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