Fluctuating selection and the maintenance of individual and sex-specific diet specialization in free-living oystercatchers

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 836-851

  van de Pol, Martijn ^a,b   Brouwer, Lyanne ^a   Ens, Bruno J ^c   Oosterbeek, Kees ^c   Tinbergen, Joost M ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Annual fitness; Cultural evolution; Environmental variability; Nonlinear selection gradient; Response to selection; Trophic polymorphism

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRAPOPULATION VARIATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VIABILITY; WADER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHARADRIIFORMES; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME;

ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

HAEMATOPODIDAE;

EID: 77949911635     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00859.x     Document Type: Article

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