Temporal patterns of resource use in an ecological model of sexual reproduction and geographic parthenogenesis

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 831-841

  Song, Y ^a   Drossel, B ^a   Scheu, S ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genetic variance; Red queen; Resource dynamics; Spatial variation; Tangled bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955880740     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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