What doesn't kill you makes you sluggish: How sublethal pesticides alter predatorprey interactions

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 2010, Pages 558-567

  Relyea, Rick A ^a   Edwards, Kerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRAGONFLY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LARVA; PESTICIDE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; SURVIVAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANAX; ANAX JUNIUS; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ANURA; BELOSTOMA; BELOSTOMA FLUMINEUM; HYLA; HYLA VERSICOLOR; INVERTEBRATA; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA CLAMITANS; SALAMANDRIDAE;

EID: 78650426098     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CE-09-027     Document Type: Article

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