Environmental change disrupts communication and sexual selection in a stickleback population

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 969-979

  Candolin, Ulrika ^a   Tukiainen, Iina ^a   Bertell, Elina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Eutrophication; Mate choice; Reliable signals; Reproduction; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COMPLEXITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EUTROPHICATION; HONEST SIGNALING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIFE HISTORY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MATE CHOICE; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SURVIVAL; TELEOST; VIABILITY;

ALGAE; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUTROPHICATION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EUTROPHICATION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 84963938775     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-1090.1     Document Type: Article

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