Functional diversity among predators of a freshwater snail imposes an adaptive trade-off for shell morphology

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-148

  DeWitt, Thomas J ^a,b   Robinson, Beren W ^a,c   Wilson, David Sloan ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive trade off; Crayfish; Functional ecology; Inducible defences; Lepomis gibossus; Multiple predators; Physa; Shell morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001175678     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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