Growth and survivorship in juvenile woodlice: Is birth mass important?

Ecography

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 132-136

  Dangerfield, J Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH MASS; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SURVIVORSHIP; WOODLOUSE;

APHILOSCIA VILIS; ISOPODA; PORCELLIONIDES PRUINOSUS;

EID: 0030619798     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1997.tb00355.x     Document Type: Article

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