Population and life-history consequences of within-cohort individual variation

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 525-537

  González Suárez, Manuela ^a,b   Galliard Le, Jean François ^a,c   Claessen, David ^a,d  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Demography; Jensen's inequality; Phenotypic plasticity; Physiologically structured population models; Stochasticity; Zootoca vivipara

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FOOD INTAKE; GROWTH RATE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; STOCHASTICITY;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EATING; ECOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EATING; ECOLOGY; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 80053378172     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661906     Document Type: Article

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