Climate change and seasonal reproduction in mammals
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Climate change and seasonal reproduction in mammals.
Seasonal reproduction is common among mammals at all latitudes, even in the deep tropics. This paper (i) discusses the neuroendocrine pathways via which foraging conditions and predictive cues such as photoperiod enforce seasonality, (ii) considers the kinds of seasonal challenges mammals actually face in natural habitats, and (iii) uses the information thus generated to suggest how seasonal re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0140