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Carryover effects from environmental change in early life: An overlooked driver of the amphibian extinction crisis?
Global change biology - 1 Jul 2023
Lundsgaard Niclas U, Hird Coen, Doody Kathleen A, Franklin Craig E, Cramp Rebecca L
Abstract excerpt
Ecological carryover effects, or delayed effects of the environment on an organism's phenotype, are central predictors of individual fitness and a key issue in conservation biology. Climate change imposes increasingly variable environmental conditions that may be challenging to early life-history stages in animals with complex life histories, leading to detrimental physiological and fitness effects in later life....
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