The effects of climate modes on growing-season length and timing of reproduction in the pacific northwest as revealed by biophysical modeling of lizards

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 372-388

  Zani, Peter A ^a   Rollyson, Mary E ^b  

^a GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ECTOTHERMY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GROWING SEASON; LIZARD; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PHENOLOGY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

SQUAMATA; UTA; UTA STANSBURIANA;

EID: 79953247283     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-165.2.372     Document Type: Article

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