Resourse use and foraging tactics in a south Indian amphibian community

• Main Author: Das, I.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka 1996
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11662/1/Resource%20use.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11662/; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266222688_Resource_use_and_foraging_tactics_in_a_south_Indian_amphibian_community

This study looks at resource (trophic, spatial and temporal) use and foraging tactics in a community of eight species of anuran amphibians at a seasonal locality in south India. Within the community, the species are differentiated into a sit-and-wait group, which are large, cryptic and sedentary foragers showing a relatively wide dietary spectrum; and a widely foraging group, whose members are aposematically coloured, and actively forage on a few prey types. However, there are indications that these modes represent ■ two ends of a continuum, with some species showing greater plasticity in prey use than others. Sympatric species, except dietary specialists, were found to generally overlap broadly in diet. Microhabitats are partitioned to a greater degree than food, the most closely related species, which tend to show similar diets, selecting different foraging areas