Initial juvenile size and environmental severity: Influence of predation and wave exposure on hatching size in Nucella ostrina

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 339, Issue , 2007, Pages 143-155

  Gosselin, Louis A ^a   Rehak, Renata ^a  

^a THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early juveniles; Interpopulation variation; Life history; Mortality factors; Offspring size; Selective pressures

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GASTROPOD; HATCHING; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MORTALITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; ROCKY SHORE; SIZE STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WAVE;

BARKLEY SOUND; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

GASTROPODA; NUCELLA OSTRINA;

EID: 34347406099     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps339143     Document Type: Article

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