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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Cai YL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6760165 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cai Yun Lin YL Mai Chun Lan CL Liao Wen Bo WB
Scientific reports 20190924 1
The understanding of the intrinsic and extrinsic causes of longevity variation has deservedly received much attention in evolutionary ecologist. Here we tested the association between longevity and spawning-site groups across 38 species of Chinese anurans. As indicators of group-spawning we used spawning-site group size and spawning-site density, which we measured at 152 spawning sites in the field. We found that both spawning-site density and group size were positively associated with longevity ...[more]