Morphometry of the stone loach, Barbatula barbatula: Do mensural characters reflect the species' life history thresholds?

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 105-115

  Kováč, Vladimír ^a   Copp, Gordon H ^b   Francis, Malcolm P ^c  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Breakpoints in development of mensural characters; Ecomorphology; Larva to juvenile transition, growth variability; Saltatory ontogeny

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY; MORPHOMETRY;

ANIMALIA; BARBATULA BARBATULA; HYMENOPHYSA CURTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344378200     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007570716690     Document Type: Article

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