Juvenile growth rate as a measure of fitness in Daphnia

Functional Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 631-635

  Lampert, W ^a   Trubetskova, I ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Estonia)

Author keywords

r g ratio; Rate of increase; Relative fitness; Reproduction; Somatic growth

Indexed keywords

DAPHNIA; CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE GROWTH RATE;

EID: 0030303297     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2390173     Document Type: Article

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