Coexistence and evolutionary dynamics mediated by seasonal environmental variation in annual plant communities

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 56-71

  Mathias, Andrea ^a   Chesson, Peter ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Evolutionary branching; Evolutionary stability; Seasonal variation; Species coexistence; Storage effect

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARID REGION; COEXISTENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PLANT; SEASON;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SEASONS;

EID: 84872122172     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.11.009     Document Type: Article

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