Fluctuating reproductive output and environmental stochasticity: Do years with more reproducing females result in more offspring?

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 737-742

  Pike, D A ^a   Stiner, J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Canaveral National Seashore   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ENVIRONMENTAL STOCHASTICITY; GLOBAL CLIMATES; POPULATION GROWTH RATES;

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEAWATER; STOCHASTICITY; STORM; TURTLE;

CHELONIA (GENUS); CHELONIA MYDAS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 34548175479     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z07-055     Document Type: Article

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