Evolution in ecological field experiments: Implications for effect size

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 199-207

  Strauss, Sharon Y ^a   Lau, Jennifer A ^b   Schoener, Thomas W ^a   Tiffin, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contemporary evolution; Ecological evolutionary feedbacks; Population dynamics; Rapid evolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; STANDARD; TIME;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38649127897     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01128.x     Document Type: Review

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