Environmental and organismal predictors of intraspecific variation in the stoichiometry of a neotropical freshwater fish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  El Sabaawi, Rana W ^a,i   Kohler, Tyler J ^b,j   Zandoná, Eugenia ^c,k   Travis, Joseph ^d   Marshall, Michael C ^e   Thomas, Steven A ^b   Reznick, David N ^f   Walsh, Matthew ^g   Gilliam, James F ^h   Pringle, Catherine ^d   Flecker, Alexander S ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^k STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER; FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRESHWATER FISH; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY; MATURITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; STOICHIOMETRY; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; RIVULUS HARTII;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; FRESH WATER;

EID: 84857869964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032713     Document Type: Article

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