The Evolutionary Ecology of Offspring Size in Marine Invertebrates

Advances in Marine Biology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-60

  Marshall, Dustin J ^a   Keough, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG SIZE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE HISTORY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; META-ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BODY SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INVERTEBRATES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS;

ECHINOIDA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34948818692     PISSN: 00652881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2881(07)53001-4     Document Type: Review

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