Interrelationships among calling effort, growth rate, and chorus tenure in Bufo fowleri

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 2002, Pages 979-987

  Given, Mac F ^a  

^a NEUMANN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; TOAD;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO FOWLERI; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037207147     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2002)002[0979:IACEGR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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