Search for dissertations about: "juvenile growth rate"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words juvenile growth rate.
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1. The pace of life of juvenile brown trout – inter- and intra-individual variation in growth and behaviour
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2. Environmental influences on the behavioural ecology of juvenile salmonids – the importance of rearing density
Abstract : Background and aims: Early environmental conditions are known to influence the phenotypic development of animals, including behavioural alterations. The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate the effects of density, social stability and structural complexity on growth, behaviour, and survival in the wild, using juvenile brown trout (Salmo trutta) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) as model species. READ MORE
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3. Juvenile birch in Sweden : Selected stem characteristics for interior and furniture applications
Abstract : In response to the furniture industry’s growing demand for raw material, large volumes of juvenile silver birch and downy birch stems available from pre-commercial thinning operations in Sweden’s forests could offer solutions. However, such stems are not currently used on an industrial scale, and most research conducted on birch stems in general has neither focussed on young trees nor the potential use of the central stem part around the tree pith. READ MORE
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4. Dynamics of omnivorous crayfish in freshwater ecosystems
Abstract : In this thesis I examine the dynamics of crayfish in streams and lakes. I have studied the influence of abiotic and biotic factors on abundance, growth, trophic position, niche breadth, and recruitment of crayfish, by conducting field studies, an outdoor channel experiment and timeseries analysis. READ MORE
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5. Body Size Evolution in Butterflies
Abstract : Life history research deals with the scheme of resource partitioning to a wide spectra of processes and the trade-offs shaping these events. One of the most fundamental life history trade-offs is the one of at which age- and size an organism should start to reproduce; reaching a large size at maturity is often advantageous in terms of high adult survival and reproductive potential, while to attain a larger size the organisms must prolong juvenile development which is assumed costly in terms of mortality. READ MORE