Environmental factors influencing adult sex ratio in Trinidadian guppies

Oecologia

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 735-745

  McKellar, Ann E ^a,b   Turcotte, Martin M ^c   Hendry, Andrew P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Life history; Male biased sex ratio; Predation; Resource limitation; Sex biased mortality

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A;

ADULT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LIMITING FACTOR; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEX RATIO; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; TELEOST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; PALAEMONIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEX RATIO; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ANIMALS; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FUNDULIDAE; MALE; PALAEMONIDAE; POECILIA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEX RATIO; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ALGAE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; CYPRINODONTOIDEI; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MACROBRACHIUM; POECILIA RETICULATA; RIVULUS;

EID: 62149146137     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1257-x     Document Type: Article

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