Extreme habitats are not refuges: poeciliids suffer from increased aerial predation risk in sulphidic southern Mexican habitats

  • Rüdiger Riesch
  • , Alexandra Oranth
  • , Justina Dzienko
  • , Nora Karau
  • , Angela Schiessl
  • , Stefan Stadler
  • , Adriana Wigh
  • , Claudia Zimmer
  • , Lenin Arias-Rodriguez
  • , Ingo Schlupp
  • , Martin Plath

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)417-426
Number of pages10
JournalBiological Journal of the Linnean Society
Volume101
Issue number2
Early online date20 Sept 2010
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2010

Keywords

  • avian predation
  • divergent natural selection
  • ecological speciation
  • Egretta thula
  • extremophile fish
  • hydrogen sulphide
  • refuge hypothesis
  • toxicity
  • aquatic surface respiration
  • Poecilia mexicana
  • Poecilia sulphuraria
  • Gambusia eurystoma

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