Evolutionary balancing of fitness-limiting factors

American Naturalist

Volumn 175, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 662-674

  Rosenheim, Jay A ^a   Alon, Uri ^b   Shinar, Guy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ecological predictability; Liebig's law of the minimum; Life history evolution; Limiting factors; Stochastic environments

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LIMITING FACTOR; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC FITNESS; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC FITNESS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952031068     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652468     Document Type: Article

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