The ESS under spatial variation with applications to sex allocation

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-47

  Proulx, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching process; Demographic stochasticity; Environmental variation; Kolmogorov equation; Mean variance trade off; Sex allocation; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; OFFSPRING PRODUCTION; SEX ALLOCATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 0033855928     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2000.1474     Document Type: Article

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