Leaving home ain't easy: Non-local seed dispersal is only evolutionarily stable in highly unpredictable environments

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1706, 2011, Pages 739-744

  Snyder, Robin E ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Achene dimorphism; Bet hedging; Competition colonization tradeoff; Dispersal; Environmental variation; Evolutionarily stable state

Indexed keywords

ACHENE; COEVOLUTION; COLONIZATION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMORPHISM; SEED DISPERSAL; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 79951794974     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1549     Document Type: Article

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