Titlebook: Reproductive Biology of South American Vertebrates; William C. Hamlett Book 1992 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1992 animals.biology.devel

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Diversity of Reproductive Modes in Anurans: Facultative Nest Construction in Gladiator Frogsigher than in any other group of vertebrates. Duellman (1985) defined reproductive mode as a composite of factors, including oviposition site, ovum and clutch characteristics, rate and duration of development, stage and size of hatchling, and type of parental care. Of the 29 modes he recognized, 21

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Reproduction in Caeciliansive biology includes several modes. In contrast to other amphibians, probably the majority of caecilians are direct developers (laying eggs on land, with metamorphosis before “hatching,” thereby circumventing the larval period) or are viviparous (providing maternal nutrition to the intra-oviductally

Density

Diversity of Reproductive Strategies Among Brazilian Lizards and Snakes: The Significance of Lineageal. 1970). Long-term field studies demonstrating geographic differences in reproductive characteristics among populations of individual species occurring in different habitats (e.g., Tinkle and Ballinger 1972; Ballinger 1979) lended support to this notion. If the local environment were the overridin

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The Reproductive Biology of the Neotropical Boid Genus , (Serpentes: Boidae)osta Rica southward through the Amazon Basin into northern Argentina. Nearly every major island or bank in the Bahamas and western Caribbean contains an endemic species of ., yet in Central and South America only one widely distributed species, the rainbow boa ., is present. In recent years the repr

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Reproductive Energetics and Physiology of the Desert-Nesting Gray Gull, ,80° north and 80° south latitude (Harrison 1983). Found from sea level along the coasts of each continent and shores of most islands, to the highest Andean lakes, larids inhabit and reproduce under extremely varied ambient conditions, several in some of the most interesting, challenging, and remote

Ablation

Gonadal Cycles of , Penguins of the South Shetland Islandsthe total food required by birds in the area, which is mainly krill (Laws 1977). . are pelagic animals with a reproductive season starting in early October and ending in February; after landing and selecting a site, courtship and reproductive behavior take place.