Climate-induced reaction norms for life-history traits in pythons

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1858-1864

  Ujvari, Beata ^a   Shine, Richard ^a   Luiselli, Luca ^b   Madsen, Thomas ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Demetra Srl Environmental Studies Centre   (Italy)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dusky rat; Extreme climatic events; Food supply; Liasis fuscus; Life history plasticity; Phenotypic plasticity; Rattus colletti; Reaction norms; Snake; Tropical Australia; Water python

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; FIELD SURVEY; FOOD SUPPLY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RODENT; SNAKE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; SNAKE; TIME;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BOIDAE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

AUSTRALIA;

LIASIS FUSCUS; PYTHONIDAE; RATTUS COLLETTI;

EID: 80051892951     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0129.1     Document Type: Article

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