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SUBMITTER: Yu TL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7176715 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu Tong Lei TL Deng Yao Hui YH
Scientific reports 20200422 1
Life history theory predicts that animals often produce fewer offspring of larger size and indicate a stronger trade-off between the number and size of offspring to cope with increasing environmental stress. In order to evaluate this prediction, we tested the life history characteristics of Bufo minshanicus at eight different altitudes on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, China. Our results revealed a positive correlation between female SVL and clutch size or egg size, revealing that larger females p ...[more]