Testing the influence of local forest canopy clearing on phenotypic variation in Trinidadian guppies

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 354-364

  Schwartz, Amy K ^a   Hendry, Andrew P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canopy cover; Disturbance; Microhabitat selection; Phenotypic change; Poecilia reticulata; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CLEARCUTTING; CYPRINID; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST COVER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANDSCAPE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MICROHABITAT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION RISK; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 77950243308     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01652.x     Document Type: Article

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