Allocation policy of female freshwater pearl mussels

Oecologia

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 90-94

  Bauer, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Food supply; Life expectancy; Reproductive effort; Threshold weight

Indexed keywords

ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FITNESS; FOOD SUPPLY; MOLLUSC; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 0032420621     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050635     Document Type: Article

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