Summary to the symposium issue: Primate fallback strategies as adaptive phenotypic plasticity-scale, pattern, and process

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 759-766

  Lambert, Joanna E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Diet; Evolution; Morphological form and function; Optimal foraging theory

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIMATE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIET; EVOLUTION; FOOD HABITS; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 70449112837     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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