Temperate snake community in South America: Is diet determined by phylogeny or ecology?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Bellini, Gisela P ^a   Giraudo, Alejandro R ^a,b   Arzamendia, Vanesa ^a,b   Etchepare, Eduardo G ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE LIMNOLOGÍA CONICET UNL   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL NORDESTE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FOOD COMPOSITION; HABITAT USE; INVERTEBRATE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION; SNAKE; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMPATRY; ANIMAL; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

DIPSADINAE; INVERTEBRATA; SERPENTES;

ANIMALS; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SNAKES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84929193081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123237     Document Type: Article

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