Investing for survival of rare severe stresses in heterogeneous environments

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 987-1002

  Cohen, Dan ^a   Mangel, Marc ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian updating; ESS survival; Exponential distribution; Rare stress; Storm damage; Threshold stress; Trees

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042352188     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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