Diets of newly metamorphosed amphibians in West Texas playas

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 257-263

  Smith, Loren M ^a   Gray, Matthew J ^b   Quarles, Abigail ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM; AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM MAVORTIUM; AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO COGNATUS; CAUDATA; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; PANTHERA TIGRIS; PELOBATIDAE; SCARABAEIDAE; SPEA; SPEA MULTIPLICATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1342312695     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2004)049<0257:DONMAI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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