Unexpected patterns of plastic energy allocation in stochastic environments

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Fischer, Barbara ^a,b   Taborsky, Barbara ^a,b   Dieckmann, Ulf ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Energy allocation; Phenotypic plasticity; Reproductive investment; Stochastic environment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; MATURATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 61849168583     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/596536     Document Type: Article

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