Patterns and fitness consequences of intraclutch variation in egg provisioning in tropical Australian frogs

Oecologia

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 98-109

  Dziminski, Martin A ^a,b   Alford, Ross A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Maternal investment; Offspring size

Indexed keywords

BET-HEDGING; EGG; FITNESS; FROG; PARENTAL INVESTMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLUTCH SIZE; FROGS AND TOADS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CLUTCH SIZE; LARVA; OVUM; QUEENSLAND; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANURA; MYOBATRACHIDAE;

EID: 27644564805     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0177-2     Document Type: Article

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