Habitat-specific constraints on induced hatching in a treefrog with reproductive mode plasticity

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 169-175

  Touchon, Justin C ^a,b   Urbina, Jenny ^c   Warkentin, Karen M ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Abiotic biotic environmental variation; Adaptive phenotypic plasticity; Anura; Complex life cycle; Hyla ebraccata; Interaction modification; Predator facilitated hatching

Indexed keywords

ANT; EGG PREDATION; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FROG; HABITAT SELECTION; HATCHING; LIFE CYCLE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAINSTORM; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

ANURA; AZTECA; FORMICIDAE; HYLA EBRACCATA;

EID: 79952506825     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq192     Document Type: Article

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