Phenotypic plasticity in response to fine-grained environmental variation in predation

Functional Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 587-594

  Schoeppner, Nancy M ^a,b   Relyea, Rick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b School of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Inducible defence; Mesocosm; Risk variation; Trait lability

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FROG; MESOCOSM; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; DYTISCUS; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 66149178800     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01525.x     Document Type: Article

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