Differential response to abiotic conditions and predation risk rather than competition avoidance determine breeding site selection by anurans

Ecography

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 887-895

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

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

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g KARCH Switzerland   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FISH; FLOODPLAIN; FROG; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE; POND; PREDATION RISK; SITE SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANURA;

EID: 78049462491     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06150.x     Document Type: Article

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