Spatial selection and inheritance: Applying evolutionary concepts to population dynamics in heterogeneous space

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1112-1118

  Schauber, Eric M ^a,c   Goodwin, Brett J ^b,c   Jones, Clive G ^c   Ostfeld, Richard S ^c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Fitness; Inheritance; Modeling; Natural selection; Population dynamics; Spatial heterogeneity; Suitability

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; HERITABILITY; HETEROGENEITY; MOTH; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GROWTH;

LYMANTRIA;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 34447100063     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1578     Document Type: Article

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