Offering offspring as food to cannibals: Oviposition strategies of Amazonian poison frogs (Dendrobates ventrimaculatus)

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-227

  Poelman, Erik H ^a   Dicke, Marcel ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Egg feeding; Parental care; Reproductive strategy; Resource manipulation

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; FROG; OVIPOSITION; PARENTAL CARE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ANURA; DENDROBATES; DENDROBATES VENTRIMACULATUS;

EID: 33847322023     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-006-9000-8     Document Type: Article

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