Search Results - "Janzen, Fredric"
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Putting Eggs in One Basket: Ecological and Evolutionary Hypotheses for Variation in Oviposition-Site Choice
Published in Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics (01-12-2010)“…Oviposition-site choice is a major maternal effect by which females can affect the survival and phenotype of their offspring. Across oviparous species, the…”
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On the origin of patterns of temperature-dependent sex determination
Published in Evolution (01-04-2023)“…Species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) exhibit significant variation in the relationship between incubation temperatures and the sex ratios…”
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Demographic history and genomic signatures of selection in a widespread vertebrate ectotherm
Published in Molecular ecology (01-03-2024)“…Environmental conditions vary greatly across large geographic ranges, and yet certain species inhabit entire continents. In such species, genomic sequencing…”
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Predicting the effects of climate change on incubation in reptiles: methodological advances and new directions
Published in Journal of experimental biology (24-02-2021)“…The unprecedented advancement of global climate change is affecting thermal conditions across spatial and temporal scales. Reptiles with temperature-dependent…”
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Behavioural plasticity may compensate for climate change in a long-lived reptile with temperature-dependent sex determination
Published in Biological conservation (01-08-2012)“…► In a common garden, turtle populations differed in nest depth and nesting phenology. ► Populations did not differ in choice of shade cover over nests. ►…”
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Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination under Rapid Anthropogenic Environmental Change: Evolution at a Turtle's Pace?
Published in The Journal of heredity (01-01-2016)“…Organisms become adapted to their environment by evolving through natural selection, a process that generally transpires over many generations. Currently,…”
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What Have Long-Term Field Studies Taught Us About Population Dynamics?
Published in Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics (01-01-2019)“…Long-term studies have been crucial to the advancement of population biology, especially our understanding of population dynamics. We argue that this progress…”
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Delayed trait development and the convergent evolution of shell kinesis in turtles
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (03-10-2018)“…Understanding developmental processes is foundational to clarifying the mechanisms by which convergent evolution occurs. Here, we show how a key convergently…”
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Joint estimation of growth and survival from mark—recapture data to improve estimates of senescence in wild populations
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-01-2020)“…Understanding age-dependent patterns of survival is fundamental to predicting population dynamics, understanding selective pressures, and estimating rates of…”
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Decades of field data reveal that turtles senesce in the wild
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-06-2016)“…Lifespan and aging rates vary considerably across taxa; thus, understanding the factors that lead to this variation is a primary goal in biology and has…”
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Modeling the Effects of Climate Change–Induced Shifts in Reproductive Phenology on Temperature-Dependent Traits
Published in The American naturalist (01-05-2013)“…By altering phenology, organisms have the potential to match life-history events with suitable environmental conditions. Because of this, phenological…”
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Climate Change and Temperature‐Dependent Sex Determination: Can Individual Plasticity in Nesting Phenology Prevent Extreme Sex Ratios?
Published in Physiological and biochemical zoology (01-11-2008)“…Under temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD), temperatures experienced by embryos during development determine the sex of the offspring. Consequently,…”
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A Brief Review of Non-Avian Reptile Environmental DNA (eDNA), with a Case Study of Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) eDNA Under Field Conditions
Published in Diversity (Basel) (01-04-2019)“…Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an increasingly used non-invasive molecular tool for detecting species presence and monitoring populations. In this article, we…”
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The anti-predator role of within-nest emergence synchrony in sea turtle hatchlings
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (13-07-2016)“…Group formation is a common behaviour among prey species. In egg-laying animals, despite the various factors that promote intra-clutch variation leading to…”
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Adult Sex‐Ratio Bias Does Not Lead to Detectable Adaptive Offspring Sex Allocation Via Nest‐Site Choice in a Turtle With Temperature‐Dependent Sex Determination
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-11-2024)“…ABSTRACT Sex‐ratio theory predicts that parents can optimise their fitness by producing offspring of the rare sex, yet there is a dearth of empirical evidence…”
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Offspring dispersal ability covaries with nest-site choice
Published in Behavioral ecology (04-03-2019)“…Nesting strategy shifts with offspring dispersal ability. In snapping turtles, larger offspring have higher survival than smaller offspring when dispersing…”
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Becoming creatures of habit: Among‐ and within‐individual variation in nesting behaviour shift with age
Published in Journal of evolutionary biology (01-11-2020)“…The quantification of repeatability has enabled behavioural and evolutionary ecologists to assess the heritable potential of traits. For behavioural traits…”
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Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (24-06-2022)“…Comparative studies of mortality in the wild are necessary to understand the evolution of aging; yet, ectothermic tetrapods are underrepresented in this…”
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Effects of the egg incubation environment on turtle carapace development
Published in Evolution & development (01-03-2023)“…Developing organisms are often exposed to fluctuating environments that destabilize tissue‐scale processes and induce abnormal phenotypes. This might be common…”
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Mother knows best: nest-site choice homogenizes embryo thermal environments among populations in a widespread ectotherm
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (28-08-2023)“…Species with large geographical ranges provide an excellent model for studying how different populations respond to dissimilar local conditions, particularly…”
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