Reproductive efficiencies in the evolution of life histories

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 873-876

  Charnov, Eric L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Offspring size; Reproductive effort; Stationary populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042411093     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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