Spatial variation in abiotic and biotic factors in a floodplain determine anuran body size and growth rate at metamorphosis

Oecologia

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 637-649

  Indermaur, Lukas ^a,b   Schmidt, Benedikt R ^c,d   Tockner, Klement ^e,f   Schaub, Michael ^g,h  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d KARCH Switzerland   (Switzerland)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Bufo; Life history trait; Metamorphosis; Performance; Tadpole

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FROG; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METAMORPHISM; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER BED; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOAD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BODY SIZE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FLOODING; FROGS AND TOADS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; LIGHT; METAMORPHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANURA;

ANIMALS; ANURA; ATMOSPHERE; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FLOODS; LARVA; LIGHT; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVERS; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO;

EID: 77953688329     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1586-4     Document Type: Article

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