Spatial dynamics of adaptive sex ratios

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 30-34

  Ranta, Esa ^a   Lummaa, Virpi ^b   Kaitala, Veijo ^a,c   Merilä, Juha ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Cellular automaton; Human; Operational sex ratio; Sex allocation; Spatial

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033983349     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00112.x     Document Type: Article

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