Ecosystems provide essential services for human society, which include provisioning,
regulating, cultural, and supporting services. Amphibians provide provisioning services by …

Tadpoles are diverse and abundant consumers, and knowledge of their feeding ecology
and trophic status is essential in understanding their functional roles within aquatic habitats …

Extinctions are normal biological phenomena. Both mass extinctions in geological time and
local extinctions in ecological time are well documented, but rates of extinction have …

Community ecology: the study of the patterns and processes involving two or more species-
has developed rapidly in the last two decades, driven by new and more sophisticated …

As part of an overall decline in biodiversity, populations of many organisms are declining
and species are being lost at unprecedented rates around the world. This includes many …

This volume sets out to provide an overview of recent research on all aspects of amphibian
ecology and behaviour and to illustrate its application to practical conservation measures for …

The annual life cycle of pond breeding amphibians is characterized by periodical migrations
between three critical habitats: breeding, post breeding-feeding-and hibernating. The …

Predators affect individual growth rates of surviving prey in two conflicting ways. First,
predation acts to increase growth rate by thinning the density of prey population, which …

Interspecific competitors often colonize communities at different times, but few studies have
experimentally tested whether the strength of interspecific competition hinges on the order or …

Temporary ponds provide rich but unpredictable habitats for amphibians. Frogs, toads and
newts have life cycles which are geared to the filling and drying‐up of temporary ponds, and …