Climate-driven impacts of prey abundance on the population structure of a tropical aquatic predator

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 188-196

  Ujvari, Beata ^a   Andersson, Stefan ^c   Brown, Gregory ^d   Shine, Richard ^d   Madsen, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEMOGRAPHY; PISCIVORE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREY AVAILABILITY; REPTILE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL;

AUSTRALIA;

ACROCHORDUS ARAFURAE; ANIMALIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 72949088197     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17795.x     Document Type: Article

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