Temperature-induced plasticity in egg size and resistance of eggs to temperature stress in a soil arthropod

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1291-1298

  Liefting, Maartje ^a   Weerenbeck, Maarten ^a   Van Dooremalen, Coby ^a   Ellers, Jacintha ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Cold shock; Development rate; Egg hatching; Heat shock; Orchesella cincta; Oviposition temperature; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ARTHROPOD; ECTOTHERMY; EGG DEVELOPMENT; EGG SIZE; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; OVIPOSITION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SOIL FAUNA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ARTHROPODA; ORCHESELLA CINCTA;

EID: 78649565922     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01732.x     Document Type: Article

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