A new metric to calculate the opportunity for selection on quantitative characters

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 729-742

  Pelletier, Fanie ^a,b   Coulson, Tim ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fitness; Opportunity for selection; Population dynamics; Survival; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84873656888     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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