Delayed hatching as a response of streamside salamander eggs to chemical cues from predatory sunfish

Oikos

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 331-335

  Moore, Robert D ^a   Newton, Blake ^a   Sih, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; GREEN SUNFISH; HATCHING; SALAMANDER;

AMBYSTOMA BARBOURI; LEPOMIS CYANELLUS;

EID: 0030301992     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546073     Document Type: Article

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