Deconstructing environmental predictability: Seasonality, environmental colour and the biogeography of marine life histories

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 174-181

  Marshall, Dustin J ^a   Burgess, Scott C ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental predictability; Life history theory; Offspring size

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA;

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; LARVA; PHENOTYPE; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84934178496     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12402     Document Type: Article

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