Habitat–performance relationships: finding the right metric at a given spatial scale

JM Gaillard, M Hebblewhite… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The field of habitat ecology has been muddled by imprecise terminology regarding what
constitutes habitat, and how importance is measured through use, selection, avoidance and …

Putting eggs in one basket: ecological and evolutionary hypotheses for variation in oviposition-site choice

JM Refsnider, FJ Janzen - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Oviposition-site choice is a major maternal effect by which females can affect the survival
and phenotype of their offspring. Across oviparous species, the ultimate reasons for females' …

[BOOK][B] Nests, eggs, and incubation: new ideas about avian reproduction

DC Deeming, SJ Reynolds - 2015 - books.google.com
Incubating new ideas about avian reproduction/SJ Reynolds & DC Deeming--The fossil
record and evolution of avian egg nesting and incubation/DC Deeming--Nest construction …

Maternal effects in wood ducks: incubation temperature influences incubation period and neonate phenotype

GR Hepp, RA Kennamer, MH Johnson - Functional Ecology, 2006 - JSTOR
1. Maternal effects often explain a significant amount of variation in offspring phenotype, and
can be important in the evolution of life histories. Incubation of eggs is an important maternal …

[BOOK][B] Reptilian incubation: environment, evolution and behaviour.

DC Deeming - 2004 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This book is comprised of 12 chapters covering topics in reptilian incubation. The chapters
are written by several authors. This book is aimed at serving as a valuable reference text for …

Climate change will decrease the range size of snake species under negligible protection in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest hotspot

R Lourenço-de-Moraes, FM Lansac-Toha… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Reptiles are highly susceptible to climate change, responding negatively to thermal and
rainfall alterations mainly in relation to their reproductive processes. Based on that, we …

[BOOK][B] Snakes: ecology and conservation

SJ Mullin, RA Seigel - 2009 - degruyter.com
Destruction of habitat due to urban sprawl, pollution, and deforestation has caused
population declines or even extinction of many of the world's approximately 2,600 snake …

Adapting to the unpredictable: reproductive biology of vertebrates in the Australian wet–dry tropics

R Shine, GP Brown - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the wet–dry tropics of northern Australia, temperatures are high and stable year-round but
monsoonal rainfall is highly seasonal and variable both annually and spatially. Many …

Why do most tropical animals reproduce seasonally? Testing hypotheses on an Australian snake

GP Brown, R Shine - Ecology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Most species reproduce seasonally, even in the tropics where activity occurs year‐round.
Squamate reptiles provide ideal model organisms to clarify the ultimate (adaptive) reasons …

Evolution of an evolutionary hypothesis: a history of changing ideas about the adaptive significance of viviparity in reptiles

R Shine - Journal of Herpetology, 2014 - meridian.allenpress.com
Most reptiles are oviparous (egg-laying), but viviparity (live-bearing) has evolved about 100
times in lizards and snakes. Geographic biases in the distribution of viviparous species …