Environmental variation and behaviour: Resource availability during ontogeny and feeding performance in salamander larvae (Ambystoma texanum)

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-44

  Maurer, Eric F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING; ONTOGENY; PREY DENSITY; SALAMANDER LARVA;

AMBYSTOMA TEXANUM;

EID: 0029729459     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1996.00479.x     Document Type: Article

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