Phenotypic plasticity and population viability: The importance of environmental predictability

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1699, 2010, Pages 3391-3400

  Reed, Thomas E ^a,b   Robin S Waples, ^b   Schindler, Daniel E ^a   Hard, Jeffrey J ^b   Kinnison, Michael T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue reliability; Environmental stochasticity; Evolutionary trap; Persistence; Population dynamics; Reaction norm

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EXTINCTION; FITNESS; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; REACTION NORM; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 78149322272     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0771     Document Type: Article

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