Ecological mechanisms of evolution by natural selection: Causal processes generating density-and-frequency dependent fitness

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 313-331

  Nakajima, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a KOBE STEEL LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FITNESS; NATURAL SELECTION; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0032554279     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1997.0554     Document Type: Article

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