Birth seasonality and offspring production in threatened neotropical primates related to climate

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3035-3045

  Wiederholt, Ruscena ^a   Post, Eric ^b  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ateline primates; El Ni o southern oscillation; Extrinsic modification hypothesis; Global climate change; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEASONALITY; SEX RATIO;

LAGOTHRIX; PRIMATES;

EID: 80052471616     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02427.x     Document Type: Article

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