Phenotypically plastic responses of green frog embryos to conflicting predation risk

Oecologia

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 162-168

  Ireland, D H ^a   Wirsing, A J ^b   Murray, D L ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical cues; Hatching traits; Life history switch points; Phenotypic plasticity; Rana clamitans

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EGG SIZE; EMBRYO; FROG; HATCHING; HATCHING DATE; LIFE HISTORY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION RISK;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOOD CHAIN; FROG; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LEECH; NYMPH; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RISK;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CUES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FOOD CHAIN; INSECTS; LEECHES; NYMPH; PHENOTYPE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RANIDAE; RISK;

AESHNA CANADENSIS; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ANURA; ERPOBDELLA OBSCURA; FRESHWATER LEECH; HIRUDINIDA; RANA CLAMITANS;

EID: 34247393614     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0637-3     Document Type: Article

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