Disturbance regimes and life-history evolution

American Naturalist

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 525-536

  Lytle, David A ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic mean fitness; Body size; Geometric mean fitness; Patch dynamics; State dependent strategy; Timing of metamorphosis

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTION; LIFE HISTORY;

EID: 0035020796     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319930     Document Type: Article

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