The growth-mortality tradeoff: Evidence from anuran larvae and consequences for species distributions

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 194-202

  Schiesari, Luis ^a,b   Peacor, Scott D ^c,d   Werner, Earl E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOAA GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocation; Levels of biological organization; Rana pipiens; Rana sylvatica; Resource gradients

Indexed keywords

FROG; GROWTH; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MORTALITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FROG; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LARVA; RANIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANURA; DROSOPHILIDAE; FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 33747042260     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0440-1     Document Type: Article

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