A comparative study of phenotypic traits related to resource utilization in anuran communities

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 101-122

  Richardson, Jean M L ^a,b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anura; Comparative study; Digestive physiology; Foraging; Growth; Tadpoles

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMPHIBIAN; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EPHEMERAL POOL; PHENOTYPE; RESOURCE USE;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFONIDAE; HYLIDAE; RANIDAE;

EID: 0036344654     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016381122862     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Indices of feeding in anuran tadpoles as indicated by gut characteristics
2. Percent assimilation and clearance times of five anuran tadpoles
3. Interaction between food availability and predation mortality mediated by adaptive behavior
4. Adaptive intrinsic growth rates: An integration across taxa
5. Constraints on phenotypic evolution
6. Breeding habits and habitats of the amphibians of the Edwin S. George Reserve, Michigan, with notes on the local distributions of fishes
7. Assimilation of organic matter by zooplankton
8. A nutritional explanation for body-size patterns of ruminant and nonruminant herbivores
9. Testing hypotheses of correlated evolution using phylogenetically independent contrasts: Sensitivity to deviations from Brownian motion
10. Effects of branch length errors on the performance of phylogenetically independent contrasts
11. Selected body temperature, thermal tolerance and thermal dependence of food assimilation and locomotor performance in adult blue-tailed skinks, Eumeces elegans
12. Phylogenies and the comparative method
13. Phylogenies and quantitative characters
14. On comparing comparative methods
15. A simplified table for staging anuran embryos and larvae with notes on identification
16. Phylogenetic relationships of bufonid frogs and tests of alternate macroevolutionary hypotheses characterizing their radiation
17. Some general relationships in comparing the feeding physiology of suspension-feeding bivalve molluscs
18. An electrophoretic analysis of holarctic hylid frog evolution
19. Evolution of ribosomal DNA: Fifty million years of recorded history in the frog genus Rana
20. Phylogeny, history, and the comparative method
21. Behavioural responses to predators and predation risk in four species of larval anurans
22. Metamorphic responses to changing food levels in two species of hylid frogs
23. Stress and decision-making under the risk of predation: Recent developments from behavioral, reproductive, and ecological perspectives
24. Concordant evolution of locomotor behaviour, display rate and morphology in Anolis lizards
25. The evolution of convergent structure in Caribbean Anolis communities
26. An approach to the analysis of comparative data when a phylogeny is unavailable or incomplete
27. Contingency and determinism in replicated adaptive radiations of island lizards
28. Physiological responses of infaunal (Mya arenaria) and epifaunal (Placopecten magellanicus) bivalves to variations in the concentration and quality of suspended particles II. Absorption efficiency and scope for growth
29. Conducting phylogenetic comparative studies when the phylogeny is not known
30. Phylogenetic analyses of the correlated evolution of continuous characters: A simulation study
31. Determination of species composition in the Enallagma damselfly assemblages of permanent lakes
32. Behavioral differences between Enallagma species (Odonata) influencing differential vulnerability to predators
33. Testing hypotheses about evolutionary change on single branches of a phylogeny using evolutionary contrasts
34. The consequences of changing the top predator in a food web: A comparative experimental approach
35. Adaptation to predators in a new community: Swimming performance and predator avoidance in damselflies
36. Predatory salamanders reverse the outcome of competition among three species of anuran tadpoles
37. Predation, competition, and the composition of larval anuran guilds
38. Effects of density and predation on Scaphiopus couchi tadpoles in desert ponds
39. The relationships of Rana sylvatica and the monophyly of the Rana boylii group
40. Correlated evolution and independent contrasts
41. Growth and metamorphosis of Bufo melanostictus tadpoles: Effects of kinship and density
42. The geographic distribution of frogs: Patterns and predictions
43. Amphibia
44. The comparative ability of Anuran larvae (Genera: Hyla, Bufo, and Rana) to ingest suspended blue-green algae
45. Structure and dynamics of an amphibian community
46. Pond drying, predators, and the distribution of Pseudacris tadpoles
47. Tadpole communities
48. Influence of food quality and quantity on early larval growth of two anurans
49. Can anuran tadpoles choose among foods that vary in quality?
50. Genetic variation for larval specific growth rate in the frog Hyla gratiosa
51. Variation in growth and survival of Hyla gratiosa larvae in experimental enclosures
52. The mechanism of ultraplanktonic entrapment in anuran larvae
53. Mechanism creating community structure across a freshwater habitat gradient
54. Amphibian metamorphosis: Growth rate, predation risk, and the optimal size at transformation
55. Ontogenetic scaling of competitive relations: Size-dependent effects and responses in two anuran larvae
56. Direct and indirect effects of predators on two anuran species along an environmental gradient
57. Competition, predation, and the structure of the Ambystoma-Rana sylvatica community
58. Complex life cycles
59. Predator-prey interactions and breeding-pond use of temporary-pond species in a desert anuran community