What do tadpoles really eat? Assessing the trophic status of an understudied and imperiled group of consumers in freshwater habitats

By R. Altig, M. Whiles, Cindy L. Taylor. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Exploring the effects of salinization on trophic diversity in freshwater ecosystems: a quantitative review (2018, background): “…insects here because they had robust sample sizes (Table 2), and because their functional groups are well established in the literature (Pratt & Cairns, 1985; Merritt et al., 1996; Gooderham & Tsyrlin 2002; Altig et al., 2007; Noble et al., 2007; Ramı́rez & Gutiérrez-Fonseca, 2014; Table 1).”
Ranavirus Ecology and Evolution: From Epidemiology to Extinction (2015, background): “Even anuran tadpoles engage in cannibalism and scavenging (Altig et al. 2007 ).”
Carnivory and resource‐based niche differentiation in anuran larvae: implications for food web and experimental ecology (2009, background): “However, observations of opportunistic oophagy, carnivory or necrophagy have led to recurrent questions concerning the actual sources of nutrition of tadpoles spanning over 100 years of herpetological literature (Boulenger, 1898; Savage, 1952; Wassersug, 1975; Duellman & Trueb, 1986; Petranka & Kenn”
Road Salt Stress Induces Novel Food Web Structure and Interactions (2011, background): “Tadpole gut content analyses have shown varied diets that often include some animal matter (Altig et al. 2007).”
Amphibian Contributions to Ecosystem Services (2014, background): “Most studies have found general decreases in algae, phytoplankton, and periphyton in response to tadpole presence or abundance (Dickman 1968; Alford 1999; Morin 1999; Ranvestel et al. 2004; Altig et al. 2007).”
Stable isotopes revisited: Their use and limits for oribatid mite trophic ecology (2011, background): “, 1997), amphibians (Altig et al., 2007) and lizards (Struck et al.”