Scaling of the variance and the quantification of resource monopolization

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 199-207

  Ruzzante, Daniel E ^a   Hamilton, David C ^a   Kramer, Donald L ^b   Grant, James W A ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Intensity of selection; Opportunity for selection; Sexual selection; Variance mean relationship

Indexed keywords

CRICKET; RESOURCE MONOPOLIZATION;

ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0029730586     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/7.2.199     Document Type: Article

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