Predation environment predicts divergent life-history phenotypes among populations of the livebearing fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora

Oecologia

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 142-149

  Johnson, Jerald B ^a,c   Belk, Mark C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Life history phenotype; Predator mediated mortality; Trinidadian guppy; Wet season

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; FISH; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PREDATION;

COSTA RICA;

BRACHYRHAPHIS RHABDOPHORA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; PISCES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0035037008     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420000504     Document Type: Article

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