Behavioural plasticity may compensate for climate change in a long-lived reptile with temperature-dependent sex determination

Biological Conservation

Volumn 152, Issue , 2012, Pages 90-95

  Refsnider, Jeanine M ^a   Janzen, Fredric J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chrysemys picta; Common garden; Geographic variation; Painted turtle; Phenology; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MICROHABITAT; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEX RATIO; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURTLE;

CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84862699483     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.03.019     Document Type: Article

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