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Scarcity of water has brought about a number of structural, behavioural, physiological and ecological adaptions in amphibians inhabiting seasonally xeric habitats. These have been discussed in previous chapters. I should now like to examine the information assembled here in an integrative way in order to determine whether new and fruitful avenues of research can be pointed out.
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Warburg, M.R. (1997). Reflections and Conclusions. In: Ecophysiology of Amphibians Inhabiting Xeric Environments. Adaptations of Desert Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60357-0_7
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