When being alive implies being safe: Variation in mortality rates can cause oviposition selectivity to increase with age

Oikos

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 649-653

  Tammaru, Toomas ^a,b   Javoiš, Julian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; MORTALITY; OVIPOSITION; SENESCENCE;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 29144459148     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2005.14226.x     Document Type: Review

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