Coping with resource variation: Effect of constant and variable intervals between feeding on reproductive performance at first spawning of female three-spined sticklebacks

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 211-220

  Ali, M ^a   Wootton, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compensatory feeding; Egg lipid; Egg size; Fecundity; Jensen's inequality

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPAWNING;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 0033065516     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfbi.1999.0991     Document Type: Article

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