Alternative growth and energy storage responses to mortality threats in damselflies

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1307-1316

  Stoks, Robby ^a   De Block, Marjan ^b   McPeek, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Carry over effects; Energy storage; Growth predation risk trade off; Life history plasticity; Physiological stress; Predation risk

Indexed keywords

DAMSELFLY; GROWTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION RISK; TRADE-OFF;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ENALLAGMA; ENALLAGMA ASPERSUM; ISCHNURA; ISCHNURA VERTICALIS; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 28644443211     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00840.x     Document Type: Article

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