Reproductive asynchrony increases with environmental disturbance

Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 830-834

  Post, Eric ^a,d   Levin, Simon A ^b   Iwasa, Yoh ^c   Stenseth, Nils C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Competition; ESS; Fitness; Life history; Scale of selection

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; SYNCHRONY;

EID: 0035016531     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00818.x     Document Type: Article

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