Differential mortality drives life-history evolution and population dynamics in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2243-2252

  Johnson, Jerald B ^a   Zúñiga Vega, J Jaime ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Age specific mortality hypothesis; Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora; Costa Rica; Elasticity analysis; Live bearer; Poeciliidae; Population growth rate; Population matrix modeling; Pr dation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVOLUTION; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; MATURATION; MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SMEGMAMORPHA;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

BRACHYRHAPHIS RHABDOPHORA; POECILIIDAE;

EID: 68149119335     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1672.1     Document Type: Article

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