Population demography and the evolution of helping behaviors

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1137-1151

  Lehmann, Laurent ^a   Perrin, Nicolas ^b   Rousset, François ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Altruism; Demographic stochasticity; Environmental stochasticity; Kin selection; Recolonization

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTION; FECUNDITY; KIN SELECTION; RECOLONIZATION; STOCHASTICITY;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS;

ALTRUISM; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33748578638     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/05-655.1     Document Type: Article

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