Pesticide has asymmetric effects on two tadpole species across density gradient

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 650-658

  Distel, Christopher A ^a   Boone, Michelle D ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bufo americanus; Carbaryl; Competition; Density dependence; Rana pipiens

Indexed keywords

BUFO AMERICANUS; CARBARYL; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DENSITY GRADIENTS; HIGH DENSITY; INTERMEDIATE DENSITIES; LEOPARD FROGS; MAJOR FACTORS; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; POPULATION SIZES; RANA PIPIENS;

COMPETITION; INSECTICIDES; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ECOLOGY;

CARBARIL; INSECTICIDE;

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FROG; HABITAT TYPE; INSECTICIDE; METAMORPHOSIS; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; REMEDIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FROG; HYPOTHESIS; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TADPOLE;

ANIMALS; BUFO ARENARUM; CARBARYL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANA PIPIENS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO AMERICANUS; METAMORPHA; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA PIPIENS;

EID: 79551580307     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.418     Document Type: Article

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