Showing posts with label amphibian diversification. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amphibian diversification. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 February 2015

Size matters in the battle to adapt to diverse environments, avoid extinction

Date:
February 18, 2015

Source:
University of Toronto

Summary:
By examining research on global patterns of amphibian diversification over hundreds of millions of years, researchers have discovered that 'sexually dimorphic' species -- those in which males and females differ in size, for example -- are at lower risk of extinction and better able to adapt to diverse environments.


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