Effects of age and size at metamorphosis on performance and metabolic rates of Southern Toad, Bufo terrestris, metamorphs

Functional Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 32-38

  Beck, C W ^a,b,c   Congdon, J D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerobic metabolism; Complex life cycles; Larval environment; Larval period

Indexed keywords

AGE; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS; SIZE EFFECT; TOAD;

BUFO TERRESTRIS;

EID: 0034033331     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2000.00386.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Arnold, S.J. (1983) Morphology, performance, and fitness. American Zoologist 23, 347-361.
2. Beck, C.W. (1997) Effect of changes in resource level on age and size at metamorphosis in Hyla squirella. Oecologia 112, 187-192.
3. Berven, K.A. (1990) Factors affecting population fluctuations in larval and adult stages of the wood frog (Rana sylvatica). Ecology 71, 1599-1608.
4. Blakley, N. (1981) Life history significance of size-triggered metamorphosis in milkweed bugs (Oncopeltus). Ecology 62, 57-64.
5. Congdon, J.D., Dunham, A.E. & Tinkle, D.W. (1982) Energy Budgets and Life Histories of Reptiles (eds C. Gans & F. H. Pough), pp. 233-271. Academic Press, New York.
6. Emerson, S.B. (1978) Allometry and jumping in frogs: helping the twain to meet. Evolution 32, 551-564.
7. Emerson, S.B. (1986) Heterochrony and frogs: the relationship of life history trait to morphological form. American Naturalist 127, 167-183.
8. Goater, C.P., Semlitsch, R.D. & Bernasconi, M.V. (1993) Effects of body size and parasite infection on the locomotory performance of juvenile toads, Bufo bufo. Oikos 66, 129-136.
9. Hensley, F.R. (1993) Ontogenetic loss of phenotypic plasticity of age at metamorphosis in tadpoles. Ecology 74, 2405-2412.
10. John-Alder, H.B. & Morin, P.J. (1990) Effects of larval density on jumping ability and stamina in newly metamorphosed Bufo woodhousii fowleri. Copeia 1990, 856-860.
11. Leips, J. & Travis, J. (1994) Metamorphic responses to changing food levels in two species of hylid frogs. Ecology 75, 1345-1356.
12. Moeur, J.E. & Istock, C.A. (1980) Ecology and evolution of the pitcher-plant mosquito IV. Larval influence over adult reproductive performance and longevity. Journal of Animal Ecology 49, 775-792.
13. Newman, R.A. & Dunham, A.E. (1994) Size at metamorphosis and water loss in a desert anuran (Scaphiopus couchii). Copeia 1994, 372-381.
14. Rough, F.H. (1989) Organismal performance and Darwinian fitness: approaches and interpretations. Physiological Zoology 62, 199-236.
15. Pough, F.H. & Kamel, S. (1984) Post-metamorphic change in activity metabolism of anurans in relation to life history. Oecologia 65, 138-144.
16. Rowe, C.R., Kinney, O.M., Nagle, R.D. & Congdon, J.D. (1998) Elevated maintenance costs in an anuran (Rana catesbeiana) exposed to a mixture of trace elements during the embryonic and early larval periods. Physiological Zoology 71, 27-35.
17. Scott, D.E. (1994) Effect of larval density on life history traits in Ambystoma opacum. Ecology 75, 1383-1396.
18. Semlitsch, R.D., Scott, D.E. & Pechmann, J.H.K. (1988) Time and size at metamorphosis related to adult fitness in Ambystoma talpoideum. Ecology 69, 184-192.
19. Smith, D.C. (1987) Adult recruitment in chorus frogs: effects of size and date at metamorphosis. Ecology 68, 344-350.
20. Walton, M. (1988) Relationships among metabolic, locomotory, and field measures of organismal performance in the Fowler's toad (Bufo woodhousii fowleri). Physiological Zoology 61, 107-118.
21. Wilbur, H.M. (1980) Complex life cycles. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 11, 67-93.
22. Wilbur, H.M. & Collins, J.P. (1973) Ecological aspects of amphibian metamorphosis. Science 182, 1305-1314.