It is well established that a decrease in genetic variation can lead to reduced fitness and lack
of adaptability to a changing environment. Amphibians are declining on a global scale, and …

Recently, the importance of the female to population dynamics—especially her non‐genetic
contribution to offspring fitness or maternal effect—has received much attention in studies of …

Patterns of phenotypic change across environmental gradients (eg, latitude, altitude) have
long captivated the interest of evolutionary ecologists. The pattern and magnitude of …

Inducible defences are widely used for studying phenotypic plasticity, yet frequently we
know little about the cues that induce these defences. For aquatic prey, defences are …

Adaptive genetic differentiation along a climatic gradient as a response to natural selection
is not necessarily expressed at phenotypic level if environmental effects on population mean …

Amphibians are good models for investigating the genetics of wild animal populations
because they are:(1) widely distributed in most ecosystems;(2) easy to sample in breeding …

Many amphibian species exploit temporary or even ephemeral aquatic habitats for
reproduction by maximising larval growth under benign conditions but accelerating …

Understanding the evolution of reaction norms remains a major challenge in ecology and
evolution. Investigating evolutionary divergence in reaction norm shapes between …

Phenotypic plasticity may allow ectotherms with complex life histories such as amphibians to
cope with climate‐driven changes in their environment. Plasticity in thermal tolerance (ie …

The relative roles of natural selection and direct environmental induction, as well as of
natural selection and genetic drift, in creating clinal latitudinal variation in quantitative traits …