Density-dependent cooperation as a mechanism for persistence and coexistence

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2750-2759

  Lampert, Adam ^a   Tlusty, Tsvi ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Coexistence; Cooperation plasticity; Tragedy of the commons

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTINCTION; FITNESS; PERSISTENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESOURCE SCARCITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 80053451573     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01364.x     Document Type: Article

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