Coexistence in streams: Do source-sink dynamics allow salamanders to persist with fish predators?

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1043-1054

  Sepulveda, Adam J ^a,b   Lowe, Winsor H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture; Dicamptodon aterrimus; Genetics; Salamander; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; COEXISTENCE; EMIGRATION; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT QUALITY; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEASONAL VARIATION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURVIVAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; GENE FLOW; IDAHO; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; RIVERS; URODELA;

DICAMPTODON ATERRIMUS; PISCES; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 79960312585     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1935-y     Document Type: Article

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