Life-history evolution on tropidurinae lizards: influence of lineage, body size and climate.

ABSTRACT: The study of life history variation is central to the evolutionary theory. In many ectothermic lineages, including lizards, life history traits are plastic and relate to several sources of variation including body size, which is both a factor and a life history trait likely to modulate reproductive parameters. Larger species within a lineage, for example tend to be more fecund and have larger clutch size, but clutch size may also be influenced by climate, independently of body size. Thus, the study of climatic effects on lizard fecundity is mandatory on the current scenario of global climatic change. We asked how body and clutch size have responded to climate through time in a group of tropical lizards, the Tropidurinae, and how these two variables relate to each other. We used both tradit

SUBMITTER: Brandt R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3094402 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature