Under what conditions do climate-driven sex ratios enhance versus diminish population persistence?

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 4522-4533

  Boyle, Maria ^a   Hone, Jim ^a   Schwanz, Lisa E ^a,b   Georges, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

GSD; Male limitation; Population dynamics; Reptiles; Sex ratio; Survival; TSD

Indexed keywords

REPTILIA;

EID: 84919465228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1316     Document Type: Article

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