Environmental deterioration increases tadpole vulnerability to predation

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 392-394

  Squires, Zoe E ^a   Bailey, Paul C E ^a   Reina, Richard D ^a   Wong, Bob B M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Ecotoxicology; Predator prey interaction; Tree frog

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRESHWATER; FROG; JUVENILE; POLLUTANT; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SALINIZATION; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TESTING METHOD; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAGON FLY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FITNESS; FROG; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; TADPOLE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); HYLIDAE; LITORIA EWINGII; MYOBATRACHIDAE;

EID: 46949088765     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0144     Document Type: Article

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