Common pesticide increases costs of antipredator defenses in Rana temporaria tadpoles

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6079-6085

  Teplitsky, Céline ^a   Piha, Henna ^b   Laurila, Anssi ^a   Merilä, Juha ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FUNGICIDES; PESTICIDE EFFECTS;

METAMORPHOSIS; NATURAL POPULATION; PREDATION; RANA TEMPORARIA (TADPOLE);

PESTICIDES;

FENPROPIMORPH; FUNGICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; PESTICIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FROG; HABITUAL ADAPTATION; LABORATORY; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; STRESS; TADPOLE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOLINES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RANA TEMPORARIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

RANA TEMPORARIA;

EID: 23844544677     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050127u     Document Type: Article

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