Habitat partitioning in facultatively paedomorphic populations of palmate newts Triturus helveticus

Ambio

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 476-477

  Denoël, Mathieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT; PARTITIONING;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; SALAMANDRIDAE; TRITURUS HELVETICUS;

EID: 23944444473     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-34.6.476     Document Type: Short Survey

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12. Thanks to J.M. Burisi and P. Perrier for allowing access to their ponds, M. Albrecht and A. Spina for their constructive comments on the manuscript, F. Hourlay for helping with the field work, and Herault Prefecture for giving authorization to study newts. This research benefited from FNRS grant number 1.5.011.03 and 1.5.120.04 (Crédit aux chercheurs).