Review: Skeletochronological assessment of demographic life-history traits in amphibians

Sinsch, Ulrich The Herpetological Journal, Volume 25, Number 1, January 2015, pp. 5-13(9). A long-standing challenge for amphibian population ecologists is the reliable estimation of age in individuals without known recapture history. The development and widespread application of skeletochronology seems to have solved the issue, although studies evaluating the precision and reliability of age estimates are rare and controversial. Leer más.