Reproductive timing and individual fitness

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 802-810

  Brommer, Jon E ^a   Merilä, Juha ^a   Kokko, Hanna ^b  

^a Department of Ecology and Systematics ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Individual fitness; Intrinsic rate of increase; Life history; Reproductive timing; Selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

EID: 0036848837     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00369.x     Document Type: Review

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