Tadpoles with a Trick : Overwintering Ecology of Tadpoles in a Himalayan Stream, Uttarakhand India
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2021
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Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun
Abstract
Overwintering is a unique phenomenon of delaying metamorphosis in amphibian larvae at low temperature conditions prevailing at high elevation and latitude. This study is first of its kind in India to look at selected ecological aspects of overwintering tadpoles of Nanorana spp. in a Himalayan stream
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Amphibians, Larva, Metamorphosis, Western Himalaya, Microhabitat, Temperature, Adaptation, Cold, Development, Life history, Plasticity, Stream, Check dam