Social facilitation affects longevity and lifetime reproductive success in a self-fertilizing land snail

Oikos

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 612-620

  Baur, Bruno ^a   Baur, Anette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; HERMAPHRODITE; LONGEVITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SELFING; SNAIL;

BALEA PERVERSA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0034015945     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.880318.x     Document Type: Article

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