Invasive predatory crayfish do not trigger inducible deffences in tadpoles

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1723, 2011, Pages 3364-3370

  Gomez Mestre, Ivan ^a,b   Díaz Paniagua, Carmen ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anti predator defences; Biological invasions; Cue recognition; Dragonflies; Phenotypic plasticity; Red swamp crayfish

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CHEMICAL CUE; CRAYFISH; DRAGONFLY; EXTINCTION; FROG; INVASIVE SPECIES; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NATIVE SPECIES; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DECLINE;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ANURA; ASTACOIDEA; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII; RANA CLAMITANS;

EID: 80053940587     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2762     Document Type: Article

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