To hatch and hatch not: Similar selective trade-offs but different responses to egg predators in two closely related, syntopic treefrogs

Oecologia

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 197-206

  Gomez Mestre, Ivan ^a   Warkentin, Karen M ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo behaviour; Hatching; Inducible defence; Phenotypic plasticity; Predation

Indexed keywords

WATER;

EGG PREDATION; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FROG; HATCHING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION; SNAKE; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FROG; FUNGUS; HYMENOPTERA; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FUNGI; HYMENOPTERA; OVUM; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RANIDAE; SNAKES; WATER;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

AGALYCHNIS CALLIDRYAS; AGALYCHNIS SPURRELLI; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ARANEAE; HYLA; PISCES; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 34447648329     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0708-0     Document Type: Article

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