The influence of variation in female fecundity on effective population size

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 411-425

  Nunney, Leonard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

mating system; overlapping generations; reproductive success; small populations; standardized variance

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 0030445779     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1996.0072     Document Type: Article

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