Pond drying and hatching date shape the tradeoff between age and size at emergence in a damselfly

Oikos

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 485-494

  De Block, Marjan ^a,b   Stoks, Robby ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY SIZE; DAMSELFLY; EMERGENCE; EPHEMERAL POOL; HATCHING DATE; LIFE HISTORY; TRADE-OFF;

CHALCOLESTES VIRIDIS; LESTIDAE; ODONATA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 14844321282     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13471.x     Document Type: Article

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