Slow growth improves compensation ability: Examining growth rate and starvation endurance in pit-building antlions from semi-arid and hyper-arid regions

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1129-1144

  Rotkopf, Ron ^a   Alcalay, Yehonatan ^a   Bar Hanin, Einav ^a   Barkae, Erez David ^a   Ovadia, Ofer ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clinal variation; Growth compensation; Life history; Local adaptation; Myrmeleontidae; Trade off

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION; FOOD SUPPLY; GROWTH RATE; INSECT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; SEMIARID REGION; STARVATION; TRADE-OFF;

MYRMELEONTIDAE;

EID: 84887615180     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-013-9644-0     Document Type: Article

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