Aggregation behaviour of Bufo maculatus tadpoles as an antipredator mechanism

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 665-686

  Spieler, Marko ^a,b   Linsenmair, Karl Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CHEMICAL CUE; LARVA; TOAD;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

BUFO MACULATUS;

EID: 0032867301     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00446.x     Document Type: Article

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