Intraspecific competition and spatial heterogeneity alter life history traits in an individual-based model of grasshoppers

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 169-187

  Fielding, Dennis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrididae; Artificial life; Life history evolution; Orthoptera; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GRASSLAND; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ACRIDIDAE; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 2642547499     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.10.014     Document Type: Article

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