How to balance the offspring quality-quantity tradeoff when environmental cues are unreliable

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 258-270

  Fischer, Barbara ^a,b,c,d   Taborsky, Barbara ^a,b,c   Kokko, Hanna ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FITNESS; MATERNAL EFFECT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 78751633327     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18642.x     Document Type: Article

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