Jensen's inequality predicts effects of environmental variation

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 361-366

  Ruel, Jonathan J ^a   Ayres, Matthew P ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0033197915     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01664-X     Document Type: Note

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