Bridging the gap between ecology and evolution: Integrating density regulation and life-history evolution

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1206, Issue , 2010, Pages 17-34

  Bassar, Ronald D ^a   López Sepulcre, Andrés ^a   Walsh, Matthew R ^a   Turcotte, Martin M ^a   Torres Mejia, Mauricio ^a   Reznick, David N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

demography; density dependence; life history; population regulation

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENOTYPE; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 77957743971     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05706.x     Document Type: Review

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