Detecting life history trade-offs: Measuring energy stores in 'capital' breeders reveals costs of reproduction

Oecologia

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 508-513

  Doughty, Paul ^a,b   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

'Capital' breeding; Energy storage; Life history; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ENERGY STORE; LIFE HISTORY; REPRODUCTIVE OUTPUT; TRADE-OFF;

EULAMPRUS TYMPANUM;

EID: 0030613508     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050187     Document Type: Article

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