Ecological constraints on amphibian metamorphosis: Interactions of temperature and larval density with responses to changing food level

Oecologia

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 9-16

  Newman, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Growth; Metamorphosis; Phenotypic plasticity; Scaphiopus couchii

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LARVAL DENSITY; METAMORPHOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

SCAPHIOPUS COUCHII;

EID: 0031832539     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050485     Document Type: Article

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