Eric T Hileman, Richard B King, John M Adamski, Thomas G Anton, Robyn L Bailey, Sarah J Baker, Nickolas D Bieser, Thomas A Bell, Kristin M Bissell, Danielle R Bradke, Henry Campa, Gary S Casper, Karen Cedar, Matthew D Cross, Brett A DeGregorio, Michael J Dreslik, Lisa J Faust, Daniel S Harvey, Robert W Hay, Benjamin C Jellen, Brent D Johnson, Glenn Johnson, Brooke D Kiel, Bruce A Kingsbury, Matthew J Kowalski, Yu Man Lee, Andrew M Lentini, John C Marshall, David Mauger, Jennifer A Moore, Rori A Paloski, Christopher A Phillips, Paul D Pratt, Thomas Preney, Kent A Prior, Andrew Promaine, Michael Redmer, Howard K Reinert, Jeremy D Rouse, Kevin T Shoemaker, Scott Sutton, Terry J VanDeWalle, Patrick J Weatherhead, Doug Wynn, Anne Yagi
Elucidating how life history traits vary geographically is important to understanding variation in population dynamics. Because many aspects of ectotherm life history are climate-dependent, geographic variation in climate is expected to have a large impact on population dynamics through effects on annual survival, body size, growth rate, age at first reproduction, size-fecundity relationship, and reproductive frequency. The Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus) is a small, imperiled North American rattlesnake with a distribution centered on the Great Lakes region, where lake effects strongly influence local conditions...
2017: PloS One