Spacing Mechanisms in a Population of the Common Frog Rana Temporaria during the Non-Breeding Period
- 1 September 1981
- Vol. 37 (2) , 225-227
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3544469
Abstract
Approximately 50% of the common frogs in a 50 .times. 50 m plot were removed. Comparison with a control plot showed that the experimental plot had been largely repopulated a little more than 1 mo. later. As the proportion of marked frogs decreased in the control plot during this month, it is suggested that some of the invading frogs could be part of a transient segment of the population. To completely account for the observed repopulation it was also necessary to assume that some neighboring resident frogs invaded the experimental plot.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: