Costs and limits of dosage response to predation risk: To what extent can tadpoles invest in anti-predator morphology?

Oecologia

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 364-370

  Teplitsky, Céline ^a,b   Plénet, Sandrine ^a   Joly, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Inducible defences; Morphology; Phenotypic plasticity; Rana dalmatina

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION RISK;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD CHAIN; FRANCE; FROG; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK; SMEGMAMORPHA; TAIL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FOOD CHAIN; FRANCE; LARVA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANIDAE; RISK; SMEGMAMORPHA; TAIL;

ANURA; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; RANA DALMATINA;

EID: 26044444669     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0132-2     Document Type: Article

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