Do female common frogs choose their breeding habitat to avoid predation on tadpoles?

Oikos

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 585-591

  Laurila, Anssi ^a   Aho, Teija ^b  

^a Dept of Ecology and Systematics ^*  (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON FROG; HABITAT SELECTION; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; STICKLEBACK; TADPOLE;

RANA TEMPORARIA;

EID: 0030617838     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545621     Document Type: Article

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