Predator complement determines the relative success of tadpoles of the Rana esculenta complex

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 733-741

  Anholt, Bradley R ^a,b   Negovetic, Sonja ^a   Rauter, Claudia ^a,c   Som, Christian ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^d World Wildlife Fund Schweiz   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Activity; Co existence; Distribution; Habitat segregation; Hybridogenesis; Predation; Rana esculenta complex; Tadpoles

Indexed keywords

EID: 20644438868     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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