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Randy J. Nelson, David L. Denlinger, and David E. Somers

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780195335903

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335903.001.0001

Photoperiodism in Amphibians and Reptiles

Chapter:
(p. 399 ) 16 Photoperiodism in Amphibians and Reptiles
Source:
Photoperiodism
Author(s):

Zachary M. Weil

David Crews

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335903.003.0016

This chapter provides a broad overview of photoperiodic regulation of reproductive and nonreproductive responses in amphibians and reptiles. It focuses mostly on laboratory investigations of photoperiodic and seasonal phenomena where environmental factors can be precisely controlled, and the respective contributions of day length and environmental temperature elucidated.

Keywords:   photoperiodism, amphibians, reptiles, seasonal breeding

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