Temporal variation in predation risk: Stage-dependency, graded responses and fitness costs in tadpole antipredator defences

Oikos

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 90-99

  Laurila, Anssi ^a   Järvi Laturi, Maria ^c   Pakkasmaa, Susanna ^a,b   Merilä, Juha ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CHEMICAL CUE; FITNESS; FROG; PREDATION RISK; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AESHNA; AESHNIDAE; AMPHIBIA; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ANURA; ODONATA; RANA TEMPORARIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 5344250958     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13126.x     Document Type: Article

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