An exotic species is the favorite prey of a native enemy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Li, Yiming ^a   Ke, Zunwei ^a,b   Wang, Supen ^a,b   Smith, Geoffrey R ^c   Liu, Xuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BULLFROG; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOTIC SPECIES; FOOD PREFERENCE; NATURAL ENEMY; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SNAKE; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FROG; FROGS AND TOADS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANURA; DINODON RUFOZONATUM; LITHOBATES; RANA CATESBEIANA; SERPENTES;

ANIMALS; ANURA; ECOSYSTEM; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RANA CATESBEIANA; SNAKES;

EID: 80052498004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024299     Document Type: Article

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