Plastic inducible morphologies are not always adaptive: The importance of time delays in a stochastic environment

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 105-117

  Padilla, Dianna K ^a   Adolph, Stephen C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Inducible phenotypes; Markovian model; Phenotypic plasticity; Spatiotemporal variability; Stochastic environment; Variable environment

Indexed keywords

MARKOVIAN MODEL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENT; TIME LAG;

EID: 0029668377     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01239351     Document Type: Article

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