Reassessment of the environmental model of developmental polyphenism in spadefoot toad tadpoles

Oecologia

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-66

  Storz, Brian L ^a,b   Heinrichs, Jessica ^a   Yazdani, Arash ^a   Phillips, Ryan D ^a   Mulvey, Brett B ^a   Arendt, Jeff D ^c   Moerland, Timothy S ^d   Travis, Joseph ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasticity; Polyphenism; Spadefoot; Spea bombifrons; Spea multiplicata

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARNIVORE; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENOTYPE; INHIBITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OMNIVORY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOAD; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANOSTRACA; ANURA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PELOBATIDAE; SPEA BOMBIFRONS; SPEA MULTIPLICATA;

EID: 78650744483     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1766-2     Document Type: Article

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