The effect of behavioural and morphological plasticity on foraging efficiency in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus sp.)

Oecologia

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 380-388

  Day, Troy ^a,b   McPhail, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive significance of plasticity; Behavioural versus morphological plasticity; Foraging efficiency; Phenotypic plasticity; Sticklebacks

Indexed keywords

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

FORAGING EFFICIENCY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK;

EID: 0029659286     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00334665     Document Type: Article

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