Rain, prey and predators: climatically driven shifts in frog abundance modify reproductive allometry in a tropical snake

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  2007-08-28

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s00442-007-0842-8PMID 17724615
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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