Modelling the proximate basis of salmonid life-history variation, with application to Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L.

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 581-599

  Thorpe, John E ^a   Mangel, Marc ^b   Metcalfe, Neil B ^a   Huntingford, Felicity A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Life history evolution; Maturation; Phenotypic plasticity; Salmo; Salmonid fish; Smolt metamorphosis

Indexed keywords

FISH; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY; MODELING; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMALIA; SALMO; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0031902642     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022351814644     Document Type: Article

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