Different growth responses to temperature and resource limitation in three fly species with similar life histories

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 395-409

  Blanckenhorn, Wolf U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body size; Development; Drosophila melanogaster; Dung flies; Growth; Life history; Resource limitation; Scathophaga stercoraria; Seasonality; Sepsis cynipsea; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; LIFE HISTORY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TEMPERATURE;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA; SCATHOPHAGIDAE; SEPSIDAE; SEPSIS CYNIPSEA;

EID: 0033365223     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006741222586     Document Type: Article

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