Ramifications of predator avoidance: Predator and heavy-metal-mediated competition between tadpoles and snails

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1477-1489

  Lefcort, Hugh ^a   Thomson, Shannon M ^a   Cowles, Evelyn E ^a   Harowicz, Heidi L ^a   Livaudais, Bridgette M ^a   Roberts, Wendy E ^b   Ettinger, William F ^a  

^a GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Heavy metals; Lymnaea pulustris; Predation; Rana luteiventris; Snail; Tadpole

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HEAVY METAL; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; POLLUTION EFFECT;

IDAHO; SILVER VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; GASTROPODA; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA PALUSTRIS; RANA LUTEIVENTRIS; RANA PRETIOSA; STAGNICOLA PALUSTRIS;

EID: 0032726109     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[1477:ROPAPA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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