Risk-spreading and bet-hedging in insect population biology

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 44, Issue , 1999, Pages 535-560

  Hopper, Keith R ^a  

^a USDA ARS   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg size; Facultative diapause; Genetic polymorphism; Migration polyphenism; Spatial distribution of oviposition

Indexed keywords

INSECTA;

EID: 0033013764     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.44.1.535     Document Type: Review

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