Sex allocation in a group-living simultaneous hermaphrodite: Effects of density at two different spatial scales

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-202

  Hart, Mary K ^a   Kratter, Andrew W ^b   Svoboda, Anne Marie ^c   Lawrence, Cara L ^a   Sargent, R Craig ^a   Crowley, Philip H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Coral reefs; Gonadal investment; Mating systems; Panama; Seabass; Serranus tortugarum; Spawning behaviour; Sperm competition; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; SERRANUS TORTUGARUM;

EID: 77949847797     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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