Sex ratio bias and extinction risk in an isolated population of tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Grayson, Kristine L ^a,d   Mitchell, Nicola J ^b   Monks, Joanne M ^c   Keall, Susan N ^a   Wilson, Joanna N ^a   Nelson, Nicola J ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENDER BIAS; HATCHLING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPHENODON; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; SURVIVAL TIME; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LIZARD; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; RISK; SEX RATIO; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; ISLANDS; LIZARDS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; RISK; SEX RATIO;

EID: 84899448062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094214     Document Type: Article

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