Synergistic effects of multiple mechanisms drive priority effects within a tadpole assemblage

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 259-267

  Hernandez, Jason P ^a   Chalcraft, David R ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COEXISTENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXPLOITATION; FITNESS; FROG; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METAMORPHOSIS; OVERWINTERING; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; SYNERGISM;

ALGAE; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO TERRESTRIS; FELIDAE; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA;

EID: 84855935919     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19221.x     Document Type: Article

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