Phenological response of sea turtles to environmental variation across a species' northern range

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1751, 2013, Pages

  Mazaris, Antonios D ^a   Kallimanis, Athanasios S ^b,e   Pantis, John D ^a   Hays, Graeme C ^c,d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e University of Western Greece   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climatic niche; Geographical variation; Meta analysis; Phenotypic plasticity; Reaction norms

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; META-ANALYSIS; PHENOLOGY; REACTION NORM; SEASONALITY; TURTLE;

EID: 84870457831     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2397     Document Type: Article

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