Predation pressure, density-induced stress and tail regeneration: A casual-nexus situation or a bunch of independent factors?

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 471-482

  Tsasi, Gerasimia ^a   Pafilis, Panayiotis ^b   Simou, Chrysi ^a   Valakos, Efstratios D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecophysiology; Insularity; Lacertidae; Tail autotomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AUTOTOMY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIZARD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGENERATION; SURVIVAL;

CYPRUS; GREECE;

LACERTIDAE; PODARCIS; PODARCIS ERHARDII; SQUAMATA;

EID: 76749127097     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: 15685381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853809789647022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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