Buffering of Life Histories against Environmental Stochasticity: Accounting for a Spurious Correlation between the Variabilities of Vital Rates and Their Contributions to Fitness

American Naturalist

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 579-590

  Morris, William F ^a   Doak, Daniel F ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic buffering; Elasticity; Environmental stochasticity; Sensitivity; Silene acaulis

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SILENE; TIME;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION, GENETIC; SILENE; TIME FACTORS;

ACAULIS; SILENE; SILENE ACAULIS;

EID: 2442452563     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382550     Document Type: Article

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