On the evolutionary stability of sink populations

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 723-731

  Holt, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat breadth; Niche conservatism; Source sink dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY STABILITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SINK POPULATION;

EID: 0030697136     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018438403047     Document Type: Article

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