Size matters to adapt to diverse environments and avoid extinction

Size matters to adapt to diverse environments and avoid extinction
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Feb 19, 2015 - A new University of Toronto study may force scientists to rethink what is behind the mass extinction of amphibians occurring worldwide in the face of climate change, disease and habitat loss. The old cliche "size matters" is in fact the gist of the findings by graduate student Stephen De Lisle and Professor Locke Rowe of U of T's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in a paper pu ... more

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