Tadpole mortality varies across experimental venues: Do laboratory populations predict responses in nature?

Oecologia

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 861-868

  Melvin, Steven D ^a   Houlahan, Jeff E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coefficient of variation; Experimental venue; Laboratory; Mortality; Predation; Selection

Indexed keywords

FROG; GROWTH; HATCHING; LARVA; MESOCOSM; MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ANURA; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANURA; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANURA;

EID: 84864290087     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2260-9     Document Type: Review

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