Allocation under multiple resource constraints

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1109-1121

  Venable, D Lawrence ^a   Lloyd, David G ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Carbon; Currency problem; Evolutionarily stable strategy; Life histories; Nitrogen; Resource limitation; Sex allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 13144269657     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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