Fight or flight: Plastic behavior under self-generated heterogeneity

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1521-1536

  Herben, Tomáš ^a,b   Novoplansky, Ariel ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Architecture; Avoidance; Behavior; Confrontation; Density independent mortality; Natality; Perception distance; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CLONAL ORGANISM; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FIGHTING; FITNESS; FLIGHT; HETEROGENEITY; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAMET; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651360682     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-010-9386-1     Document Type: Article

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