Life history correlations: Why are hymenopteran parasitoids an exception?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-35

  Eijs, Irene E M ^a   Van Alphen, Jacques J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body size; Development; Fat; Fecundity; Feeding; Growth rate; Leptopilina; Longevity; Phylogeny; Trade off

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032989829     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.21045.x     Document Type: Article

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