Food supply modifies the trade-off between past and future reproduction in a sexual parasite-host system (Rana esculenta, Rana lessonae)

Oecologia

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 415-424

  Waelti, Marc Olivier ^a,b   Reyer, Heinz Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Costs of reproduction; Life history theory; Metabolic rate; Population dynamics; Resource availability

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; FROG; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; METABOLISM; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPAWNING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FROG; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASON;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANA ESCULENTA; RANIDAE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

ANURA; RANA ESCULENTA; RANA LESSONAE;

EID: 34248634293     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0671-9     Document Type: Article

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