Variation in age and size in fennoscandian three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  DeFaveri, Jacquelin ^a   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FINLAND; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FINLAND; FRESH WATER; LONGEVITY; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 84894209729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080866     Document Type: Article

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