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The Effect Of Temperature On The Growth Rates Of Several California Frogs, Donald Avila Villeneuve
The Effect Of Temperature On The Growth Rates Of Several California Frogs, Donald Avila Villeneuve
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
To date the majority of the work on the ecological significance of embryonic temperature relationships has been with Eastern Frongs. The writer is aware of only two papers describing work of this nature with California frogs: Schechtmann and Oleson (1941) working with temperature tolerance in embryos of Hyla regilla, and the work of Zweifel (1955) on the Rana boylei species group.
For this reason it seemed desireable to study the effect of temperature on the growth rates of some frogs native to California and, since work of this nature has been done with the eastern Rana catesbeiana by Moore (1942b), …