Short pond hydroperiod decreases fitness of nonnative hybrid salamanders in California
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1 Department of Biology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 3 School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA 4 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 5 La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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