Demographic effects of temperature-dependent sex determination: Will tuatara survive global warming?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-72

  Mitchell, Nicola J ^a,b   Allendorf, Fred W ^a,b,c   Keall, Susan N ^b   Daugherty, Charles H ^b   Nelson, Nicola J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global warming; Phenology; Reptile; Sex ratio; Sphenodon guntheri; TSD

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; EXTINCTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; ISOLATED POPULATION; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RARE SPECIES; REPTILE; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; TRANSLOCATION;

MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH BROTHER ISLAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

REPTILIA; SPHENODON GUNTHERI; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS;

EID: 70349085555     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01964.x     Document Type: Article

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