Food-limited mothers favour offspring quality over offspring number: A principal components approach

Functional Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 88-95

  Stahlschmidt, Zachary R ^a,b   Adamo, Shelley A ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gryllus texensis; Adaptive plasticity; Cricket; Environmental quality; Multivariate; Optimal egg size; Reproductive strategy; Trade off

Indexed keywords

GRYLLINAE; GRYLLUS TEXENSIS;

EID: 84921438160     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12287     Document Type: Article

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