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Article: Tropical larval anuran fitness in the absence of direct effects of predation and competition.
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- Ecology
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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Key words: Amazonian amphibians; direct predation; exclosures; occurrences; species; transplants.
INTRODUCTION
Species distributions and occurence patterns can be determined, among other things, by biotic factors such as predation (Kettlewell 1955, Werner, et al. 1983. Watanabe 1984, Resetarits and Wilbur 1989, Woodman and Price 1992) and competition (Grosberg 1981, Hairston 1986, Robertson and Gaines 1986, Alatalo et al. 1987), and by abiotic factors (Kingsolver 1989, Dunson and Travis 1991). Most often, the effects of predators and/or competitors are evaluated based on observational data and species manipulation experiments to infer casual ...