Salamanders' Resilience to a Warming Climate May Protect Them from Extinction (4 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Salamanders' Resilience to a Warming Climate May Protect Them from Extinction (4 of 7)

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The southern gray-cheeked salamander sitting on top of Eric Riddell's hands. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 11 July 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.A. Riddell at Clemson University in Clemson, SC, and colleagues was titled, "Plasticity reveals hidden resistance to extinction under climate change in the global hotspot of salamander diversity."

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Eric Riddell

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