Ecology and Evolution of Adaptive Morphological Variation in Fish Populations

Ecology and Evolution of Adaptive Morphological Variation in Fish Populations

The work in this thesis deals with the ecology and evolution of adaptive individual variation. Ecologists have long used niche theory to describe the ecology of a species as a whole, treating conspecific individuals as ecological equivalent. During recent years, research about individual variation i...

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Main Author: Svanbäck, Richard
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Ekologi och geovetenskap 2004
Subjects:
Ecology
competition
functional morphology
individual specialization
inter-individual variation
intra-population variation
morphological variation
ontogeny
Perca fluviatilis
perch
phenotypic plasticity
predation
trade-offs
Ekologi
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