Chemical alarm signalling in terrestrial salamanders: Intra- and interspecific responses

Ethology

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 599-613

  Chivers, Douglas P ^a   Kiesecker, Joseph M ^b   Wildy, Erica L ^b   Anderson, Michael T ^b   Blaustein, Andrew R ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; DUNN'S SALAMANDER; LONG-TOED SALAMANDER; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; SOUTHERN TORRENT SALAMANDER; WESTERN REDBACK SALAMANDER;

OREGON; USA;

AMBYSTOMA MACRODACTYLUM; AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; PLETHODON CINEREUS; PLETHODON DUNNI; PLETHODON VEHICULUM; RHYACOTRITON VARIEGATUS; RHYACOTRITONIDAE;

EID: 0030742148     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1997.tb00171.x     Document Type: Article

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