Morphological and life history responses to predators in larvae of seven anurans

Oikos

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 169-180

  Lardner, Björn ^a  

^a Ecology Building   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FROG; LIFE HISTORY; MORPHOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESPONSE ANALYSIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO BUFO; BUFO CALAMITA; HYLO; HYLO ARBOREA; INVERTEBRATA; PELOBATES FUSCUS; RANA ARVALIS; RANA DALMATINA; RANA TEMPORARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034091620     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.880119.x     Document Type: Article

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