INTERACTING COLOR AND BEHAVIOR RESPONSES TO MULTIPLE SELECTION PRESSURES IN THE SISTER SALAMANDER SPECIES AMBYSTOMA BARBOURI AND AMBYSTOMA TEXANUM.
My research explores the complex strategies animals adapt to cope with multiple selection pressures. I studied the behavioral and color response of two salamander sister species, Ambystoma barbouri and A. texanum, to temperature, predation risk and ultraviolet radiation (UVR, 280-320 nm). Ambystoma...
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UKnowledge
2002
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| Online Access: | http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/260 http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1263&context=gradschool_diss |