Behavioural plasticity may compensate for climate change in a long-lived reptile with temperature-dependent sex determination

2012/06/23 by Jeanine M. Refsnider, Fredric J. Janzen · 21 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Adaptation (eye) #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Climate change #Cline (biology) #Demography #Ecology #Habitat #Nest (protein structural motif) #Population #Species Distribution and Climate Change #Threatened species #Turtle Biology and Conservation

paper · doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2012.03.019

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