Tradeoffs between growth and reproduction in response to temporal variation in food supply

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 319-329

  Siems, Dann P ^a,b   Sikes, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gonadosomatic index; Gut length; Phenotypic plasticity; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

FOOD SUPPLY; GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRADE-OFF;

PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 0031672041     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007407925835     Document Type: Article

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