Coping with predators and food limitation: Testing life history theory for sex-specific larval development

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 642-649

  Johannes Mikolajewski, Dirk ^a   Joop, Gerrit ^b,c   Wohlfahrt, Bianca ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COPING STRATEGY; DRAGONFLY; FOOD LIMITATION; GROWTH RATE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIZE AT MATURITY; SIZE EFFECT;

ANIMALIA; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); LADONA DEPRESSA; ODONATA;

EID: 34047124813     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.15139.x     Document Type: Article

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