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- Title
RESOURCE LIMITATION AND REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT IN A PLANKTONIC ROTIFER.
- Authors
Stelzer, Claus-Peter
- Abstract
Investigates resource limitation and reproductive effort in a planktonic rotifer, Synchaeta pectinata. Proportion of energy allocated to reproduction as food becomes more limited; Resistance to starvation of rotifers with small ovaries; Plasticity in the allocation scheme of the rotifer interpreted as an adaptive strategy to variable food conditions.
- Subjects
ROTIFERA reproduction; RESOURCE partitioning (Ecology)
- Publication
Ecology, 2001, Vol 82, Issue 9, p2521
- ISSN
0012-9658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[2521:RLAREI]2.0.CO;2