Adaptive strategies in size-structured populations: Optimal patterns and perturbation analysis

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 565-582

  Hernandez, Maria Josefina ^a   León, Jesús Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Avoidable and unavoidable mortality; Constrained optimization; Life history evolution; Perturbation analysis; Reproductive values; Size structured populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041992605     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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