Integrating phylogeography and physiology reveals divergence of thermal traits between central and peripheral lineages of tropical rainforest lizards

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1596, 2012, Pages 1680-1687

  Moritz, Craig ^a,b   Langham, Gary ^a,b   Kearney, Michael ^c   Krockenberger, Andrew ^b   vanDerWal, Jeremy ^b   Williams, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecophysiology; Ectotherms; Niche Evolution

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; DIVERGENCE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ECTOTHERMY; FOREST EDGE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT TYPE; LIZARD; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RAINFOREST; SELECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84860660724     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0018     Document Type: Article

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