The life‐history traits of animals are influenced by several factors. It has been proposed that
key factors such as competition, predation pressure, and resource availability may differ …

Knowing the age structure of endangered species is important in order to contribute to future
conservation studies for such species. In this context, we investigated age structure, age at …

The fire salamander Salamandra salamandra is a widespread taxon in Europe, exhibiting
great intraspecific diversity in phenotype and life history traits across its geographical …

One of the main factors creating intraspecific morphological variation, sexual dimorphism
(SD) could be expressed as adult male and female animals having different body sizes or …

Determining the age of any species allows it to be analyzed from the ontogenetic,
demographic, and ecological perspectives. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis …

Populations from different environmental habitats indicate variation in life history traits and
these differences are mostly related to longevity, age and size at maturity. In this study, age …

In this study, the age structure and some life history traits were revealed for the first time in a
population of Ommatotriton vittatus, living in Tarsus (mid-south part of Turkey), at the western …

The life‐history traits of ectothermic animals can be influenced by many abiotic factors,
including climate. As an ectothermic species, we questioned whether the life‐history …

Sexual dimorphism (SD) is a widespread phenomenon in most vertebrate species and is
exhibited in a myriad of ways. In amphibians, sexual size dimorphism, in which females are …

The Anatolian banded newt is an endemic amphibian species to the western and northern
parts of Türkiye. The present study provides the new locality records of Ommatotriton …