funded by National Sciences Foundation of China(No.31272308 and 31872216).
Individual age and population age composition are the major concerns of ecologists,evolutionary biologists and conservation biologists.In amphibians,skeletochronology-counting the number of lines of arrested growth de...
Financial support was provided by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(Nos.31772451,31970393);the Science and Technology Youth Innovation Team of Sichuan Province(2019JDTD0012)。
Variation in age structure and body size benefits are identified to understand the evolution of life history.Here,we estimated the age structure and body size of two species of odorous frogs(Odorrana margaretae and Od...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 31471971)to Jianli XIONG;grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 31272332)to Baowei ZHANG。
Age and body size a re critical for understanding life history evolution and ecology.In this study,the age and body size of the Shangcheng stout salamander,Pachyhynobius shangchengensis,from a population in Anhui Prov...
supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research(RFBR)KOMFI 17-00-00430(K)and 17-00-00425 and Arm_a 18-54-05020;Russian National Foundation N14-50-00029
Valentin's rock lizard (Darevskia valentini) is suggested to be the pare nt for several parthenoge netic species (e.g., D. armeniaca, D. bendimahiensis, D. sapphirina, and D. unisexualis) that evolved through hybridiz...
The effects of climate change on organisms are now being extensively studied in many different taxa. However, the variation in body size, usually shrinkage in response to increasing temperature, has received little at...
supported by the Zoshinkai Fund for Protection of Endangered Animals and the Grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI Grant number 22510244)
Skeletochronology is a method commonly used for estimating the age of amphibians and reptiles in the wild. However, the number of lines of arrested growth (LAGs) does not necessarily reflect age in some species. We ...
Financial support was provided by the Foundation of Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation (Ministry of Education)
A skeletochronological study was conducted for the age, longevity and growth of a Rana nigromaculata population in northeastern Sichuan, China. Of 139 specimens, 119(68 males and 51 females) exhibited distinct arreste...
supported by the National Natu-ral Science Foundation of China(30770316)
Knowledge of life history is important for understanding possible connections to population declines. Here, we investigated the female age structure and fecundity of Echinotriton chinhaiensis, one of the most endanger...