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SUBMITTER: Muller H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3645021 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Müller Hendrik H Liedtke H Christoph HC Menegon Michele M Beck Jan J Ballesteros-Mejia Liliana L Nagel Peter P Loader Simon P SP
Biology letters 20130327 3
Many amphibian lineages show terrestrialization of their reproductive strategy and breeding is partially or completely independent of water. A number of causal factors have been proposed for the evolution of terrestrialized breeding. While predation has received repeated attention as a potential factor, the influence of other factors such as habitat has never been tested using appropriate data or methods. Using a dataset that comprises 180 amphibian species from various East African habitats, we ...[more]