Body size variation of four latitudinally-separated populations of a toad species: age and growth rate as the proximate determinants.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Integrative Zoology

• Publication date

  2013-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2012.00294.xPMID 24020470
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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