Competition and predation mediate the indirect effects of an insecticide on southern leopard frogs

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1041-1054

  Mills, Nathan E ^a,b   Semlitsch, Raymond D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b HARDING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 naphthyl N methylcarbamate; Carbaryl; Community structure; Competition; Declining amphibians; Direct effect; Indirect effect; Insecticide; Pesticide; Population regulation; Predation; Rana sphenocephala

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FROG; INSECTICIDE; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PREDATION; SURVIVAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA;

EID: 4444230344     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5134     Document Type: Article

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