Is life-history buffering or lability adaptive in stochastic environments?

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 972-980

  Koons, David N ^a,b   Pavard, Samuel ^b,c   Baudisch, Annette ^b   Jessica E Metcalf, C ^b,d  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

EID: 67649519423     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.16399.x     Document Type: Article

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