Competition between larvae in a butterfly Pieris napi and maintenance of different life-history strategies

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 529-539

  Kivelä, Sami M ^a   Välimäki, Panu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Contest; Mortality; Phenotypic plasticity; Scramble

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FECUNDITY; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORTALITY; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SURVIVAL;

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BUTTERFLY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BUTTERFLIES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LARVA; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

LEPIDOPTERA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS NAPI;

EID: 42149170098     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01371.x     Document Type: Article

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