Multi-predator effects across life-history stages: Non-additivity of egg- and larval-stage predation in an African treefrog

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 503-508

  Vonesh, James R ^a   Osenberg, Craig W ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Complex life history; Density mediated indirect interaction (DMII); Higher order interaction (HOI); Hyperoliidae; Multiple predators; Phenotypic plasticity; Predator induced hatching; Trait mediated indirect interaction (TMII)

Indexed keywords

EGG PREDATION; FROG; HATCHING; LIFE HISTORY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANURA; HYPEROLIIDAE; HYPEROLIUS;

EID: 0038727076     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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