Plastic reproductive allocation as a buffer against environmental stochasticity - linking life history and population dynamics to climate

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-257

  Bårdsen, Bård Jørgen ^a   Henden, John Andrè ^a,b   Fauchald, Per ^a,b   Tveraa, Torkild ^a   Stien, Audun ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLASTIC; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; TIME SERIES;

EID: 78751632131     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18597.x     Document Type: Article

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