Effect of body size on intraguild predation between tadpoles of bamboo-breeding poison frogs and predaceous mosquito larvae

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 431-435

  von May, Rudolf ^a   Reider, Kelsey E ^a   Summers, Kyle ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BREEDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROG; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROHABITAT; MOSQUITO; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RELOCATION; SURVIVORSHIP; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANURA; DENDROBATIDAE;

EID: 70349334717     PISSN: 02705060     EISSN: 21566941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02705060.2009.9664315     Document Type: Article

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