Hot tadpoles from cold environments need more nutrients life history and stoichiometry reflects latitudinal adaptation

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1316-1325

  Liess, Antonia ^a   Rowe, Owen ^a   Guo, Junwen ^a   Thomsson, Gustaf ^a   Lind, Martin I ^a,b,c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allometry; Amphibian; C: nutrient ratio; Common frog; Development rate; Growing season; Northern Sweden; Temperature adaptation; Vertebrate stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOMETRY; AMPHIBIAN; BODY SIZE; BOREAL; FAT; FOOD QUALITY; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH RATE; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NUTRIENT; STOICHIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; SWEDEN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; RANA TEMPORARIA; VERTEBRATA;

ADAPTATION; ALLOMETRY; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; C: NUTRIENT RATIO; COLD; DEVELOPMENT RATE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; LARVA; NORTHERN SWEDEN; PHYSIOLOGY; RANA TEMPORARIA; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; VERTEBRATE STOICHIOMETRY;

ALLOMETRY; AMPHIBIAN; C: NUTRIENT RATIO; COMMON FROG; DEVELOPMENT RATE; GROWING SEASON; NORTHERN SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE ADAPTATION; VERTEBRATE STOICHIOMETRY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLD TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENT; HOT TEMPERATURE; LARVA; RANA TEMPORARIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 84886306553     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12107     Document Type: Article

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