Predation sharpens the adaptive peaks: Survival trade-offs in sympatric sticklebacks

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 237-248

  Vamosi, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; DIVERGENCE; FISH; TRADE-OFF;

AESHNA; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; NOTONECTA; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS;

EID: 0036395167     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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