Hitting the ground running: Environmentally cued hatching in a lizard

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 1, 2013, Pages 160-165

  Doody, J Sean ^a,b   Paull, Phillip ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EGG PREDATION; EMBRYO; HATCHING; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE CYCLE; NEST SITE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; VERTEBRATE; VIBRATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; LAMPROPHOLIS DELICATA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84876362419     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CE-12-111     Document Type: Article

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