Trophic plasticity and fine-grained resource variation in populations of western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 801-819

  Ruehl, Clifton B ^a,b   DeWitt, Thomas J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecomorphology; Fine scale resource variation; Foraging ecology; Geometric morphometrics; Induced morphology; Population differentiation; Resource polymorphism; Trophic plasticity

Indexed keywords

GAMBUSIA AFFINIS;

EID: 26444562999     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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