Effects of a predator on prey metamorphosis: Plastic responses by prey or selective mortality?

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 838-851

  Hechtel, Laura J ^a,b   Juliano, Steven A ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes triseriatus; Behavioral responses; Growth rate; Life history; Meta analysis; Metamorphosis; Mortality rate; Mosquitoes; Predator prey; Toxorhynchites rutilus

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHOSIS; MOSQUITO; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TREE-HOLE MOSQUITO;

AEDES TRISERIATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS;

EID: 0030616846     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0838:EOAPOP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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