The influence of age-specific survivorship on pumpkinseed sunfish life histories

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2299-2313

  Bertschy, Kirk A ^a   Fox, Michael G ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Centrarchids; Fishes; Gonads; Lepomis gibbosus; Life history theory; Maturation; Population; Sunfish; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGE; LIFE HISTORY; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SURVIVORSHIP;

ANIMALIA; CENTRARCHIDAE; LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032850570     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[2299:TIOASS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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