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Asymmetric larval competition between two species of neotropical foam-nesting frogs: Leptodactylus fuscus and Engystomops pustulosus

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Downie, J. Roger, Walsh, Patrick T., Langhorne, Cecilia (2008): Asymmetric larval competition between two species of neotropical foam-nesting frogs: Leptodactylus fuscus and Engystomops pustulosus. Journal of Natural History 42 (31-32): 2151-2159, DOI: 10.1080/00222930802140178, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930802140178

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