Excess offspring as a maternal strategy: Constraints in the shared nursery of a giant damselfly

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 543-551

  Fincke, Ola M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

cannibalism; clutch size; Megaloprepus; parent offspring conflict; sex allocation; sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CANNIBALISM; CLUTCH SIZE; EMERGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; INSECT; MORTALITY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PREDATOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIBLICIDE; SURVIVORSHIP; TRADE-OFF;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); MEGALOPREPUS; MEGALOPREPUS CAERULATUS; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 79955444903     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr015     Document Type: Article

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