Environmental correlates, plasticity, and repeatability of differences in performance among blacknose dace (Rhinichthys atratulus) populations across a gradient of urbanization

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-42

  Nelson, Jay A ^a   Gotwalt, Portia S ^a   Simonetti, Christopher A ^a   Snodgrass, Joel W ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RUNOFF; STREAMWATER; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED;

ANIMALIA; RHINICHTHYS ATRATULUS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CITY; CYPRINIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SWIMMING;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CYPRINIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; RIVERS; SWIMMING;

EID: 38749109694     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/523304     Document Type: Article

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