Cascading life-history interactions: Alternative density-dependent pathways drive recruitment dynamics in a freshwater fish

Oecologia

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 573-582

  Vandenbos, Rena E ^a,b   Tonn, William M ^a   Boss, Shelly M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Selkirk College Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early life history; Egg cannibalism; Pimephales promelas; Population regulation; Size selective mortality

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; FISH; LIFE HISTORY; RECRUITMENT;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CYPRINIFORMES; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CYPRINIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

CYPRINIFORMES; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 33745411169     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0410-7     Document Type: Article

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