Overwintered Bullfrog tadpoles negatively affect Salamanders and Anurans in native amphibian communities

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 2004, Pages 683-690

  Boone, Michelle D ^a   Little, Edward E ^a   Semlitsch, Raymond D ^b  

^a Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; OVERWINTERING; POND;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM; AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO AMERICANUS; CAUDATA; FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA; REPTILIA;

EID: 4444256028     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CE-03-229R1     Document Type: Article

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