Has contemporary climate change played a role in population declines of the lizard Ctenophorus decresii from semi-arid Australia?

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2015, Pages 66-77

  Walker, Samantha ^a   Stuart Fox, Devi ^a   Kearney, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activity restriction; Climate change; Lizard; Local extinction; Mechanistic model

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTENOPHORA; CTENOPHORUS DECRESII; DESICCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SUMMER; THERMOREGULATION; WEATHER; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LIZARD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; RAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84948735374     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: 18790992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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