Comparative morphology of threespine Gasterosteus aculeatus and ninespine Pungitius pungitius sticklebacks in lowland streams of southeastern England

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 319-336

  Kováč, Vladimír ^a   Copp, Gordon H ^b,c,d   Dimart, Yaël ^b,e   Užíková, Martina ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UMR CARRTEL   (France)

^d CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Fish ecomorphology; Functional morphology indices; Growth variability; Mensural characters; Principal components analysis; Resources use; Split linear regression

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; FISH; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PUNGITIUS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036960005     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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