Rain forest canopy cover, resource availability, and life history evolution in guppies

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1546-1559

  Grether, Gregory F ^a   Millie, David F ^b   Bryant, Michael J ^c   Reznick, David N ^c   Mayea, Wendy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy cover; Density dependent selection; Environmental gradient; Growth rate; Life history evolution; Periphyton; Poecilia reticulata; Predation; Primary productivity; Resource availability; Trinidad, West Indies; Tropical stream

Indexed keywords

LIFE HISTORY; PREDATION; RAINFOREST; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; VEGETATION COVER;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0034951074     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[1546:RFCCRA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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