Responses of toad tadpoles to ammonium nitrate fertilizer and predatory stress: Differences between populations on a local scale

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1440-1446

  Ortiz Santaliestra, Manuel E ^a   Fernández Benéitez, María José ^a   Lizana, Miguel ^b   Marco, Adolfo ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agrochemicals; Amphibians; Local variation; Multiple stressors; Predation

Indexed keywords

AGROCHEMICALS; AMPHIBIANS; LOCAL VARIATION; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; PREDATION;

FERTILIZERS; MAMMALS; POLLUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; AMMONIUM NITRATE; FERTILIZER;

AGROCHEMICAL; AMMONIUM NITRATE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FIELD SURVEY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MORTALITY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION DECLINE; TOAD;

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL SPECIES; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); LARVA; MALE; NEWT; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; POND; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREDATOR STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TADPOLE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FERTILIZERS; FOOD CHAIN; LARVA; MALE; NITRATES; SALAMANDRIDAE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; PELOBATES CULTRIPES; TRITURUS MARMORATUS;

EID: 79955736851     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.523     Document Type: Article

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