Factors determining tadpole vulnerability to predators: Can prior experience compensate for a suboptimal shape?

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 523-534

  Álvarez, David ^a   Nicieza, Alfredo G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bufo; First encounter; Inducible defences; Predation; Rana; Tail shape

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DRAGONFLY; FROG; MORPHOLOGY; PREDATOR; SURVIVAL; VULNERABILITY;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ANURA; BUFO; BUFO BUFO; INSECTA; RANA TEMPORARIA;

EID: 33750691367     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-006-9114-z     Document Type: Article

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