Timing in a fluctuating environment: Environmental variability and asymmetric fitness curves can lead to adaptively mismatched avian reproduction

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1741, 2012, Pages 3161-3169

  Lof, Marjolein E ^a   Reed, Thomas E ^a   Mcnamara, John M ^b   Visser, Marcel E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Climate; Dynamic optimization; Fitness curve; Plasticity; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FITNESS; OPTIMIZATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AVES;

EID: 84863864650     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0431     Document Type: Article

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