Does size predict demographic fate? Modular demography and constraints on growth determine response to decreases in size

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1670-1678

  Hart, Simon P ^a,b   Keough, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bryozoan; Demography; Fragmentation; Life history; Modular demography; Modular organism; Module loss; Partial mortality; State variable; Watersipora subtorquata

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BRYOZOAN; COLONIZATION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DEMOGRAPHY; FECUNDITY; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRYOZOA; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BRYOZOA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BRYOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; WATERSIPORA SUBTORQUATA;

EID: 67449110957     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1745.1     Document Type: Article

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