Fitness

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 1599-1612

  Metz, J A J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Average lifetime offspring number; Basic reproduction ratio; Evolutionarily stable strategy; Evolutionary optimization principle; Fitness; Fitness proxy; Ideal free evolutionarily stable polymorphism; Intrinsic rate of (natural) increase; Invasion fitness; Malthusian parameter; Metaindividual; r; R 0; Shaw Mohler formula; Structured populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650698700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00792-8     Document Type: Chapter

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