Natural selection by avian predators on size and colour of a freshwater snail (Pomacea flagellata)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 331-342

  Reed, Wendy L ^a   Janzen, Fredric J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disruptive selection; Limpkin; Snail kite

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; NATURAL SELECTION; PREDATOR; PREY SELECTION;

ACCIPITRIDAE; ARAMIDAE; ARAMUS GUARAUNA; AVES; BASOMMATOPHORA; GALLIFORMES; GASTROPODA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); POMACEA FLAGELLATA; ROSTRHAMUS; ROSTRHAMUS SOCIABILIS;

EID: 0032769403     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1998.0305     Document Type: Article

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