Picking personalities apart: Estimating the influence of predation, sex and body size on boldness in the guppy Poecilia reticulata

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1711-1718

  Harris, Sanna ^a   Ramnarine, Indar W ^b   Smith, Henrik G ^a   Pettersson, Lars B ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CYPRINID; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POPULATION SIZE; PREY SELECTION;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 77958459459     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18028.x     Document Type: Article

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