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The influence of spatial obstruction of access to food of the common spade
foot toad, Pelobates fuscus (Laurenti, 1768) was tested in the laboratory.
Structures of two different habitats, namely cereal and fallow, were simula
ted. Crickets (Acheta domestica) were used as prey. The amphibians were sig
nificantly more successful in capturing insects in the linear simulation of
cereal, than in the disorganised simulation of fallow land. (C) 2001 Elsev
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