RESPONSES IN THE DIET COMPOSITION OF THE COMMON FROG (RANA TEMPORARIA) TO THE STOCHASTIC GRADATION OF AUTUMNAL MOTH (EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA) LARVAE

We studied the feeding ecology of the common frog Rana temporaria in a population located at the subarctic taiga-tundra frontier in Finland over two consecutive years (2002, 2003). In the summer of 2003, an unexpected gradation of autumnal moth (Epirrita autumnata) larvae occurred at our study site....

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Published in:Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Main Authors: Kovács, Tibor, Herczeg, Gábor, Hettyey, Attila
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Biological Section of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and the Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM) 2018
Subjects:
opportunistic feeding behaviour
Anura
Finnish Lappland
Lappland
Subarctic
taiga
Tundra
Online Access:https://ojs.mtak.hu/index.php/actazool/article/view/1278
https://doi.org/10.17109/AZH.63.1.115.2017

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