Weather and sex ratios of head-started Agassiz’s desert tortoise Gopherus agassizii juveniles hatched in natural habitat enclosures
Head-starting of Agassizís desert tortoise, a means to aid recovery of this threatened species, may adversely affect offspring sex ratios via temperature-dependent sex determination combined with possible unnatural thermal conditions in head-start facilities. We determined sex ratios in juvenile tor...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Inter-Research
2016-05-01
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Series: | Endangered Species Research |
Online Access: | https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esr/v30/p145-155/ |