Evolution in population parameters: Density-dependent selection or density-dependent fitness?

American Naturalist

Volumn 181, Issue SUPPL., 2013, Pages

  Travis, Joseph ^a   Leips, Jeff ^b   Helen Rodd, F ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competitive ability; Density dependent selection; Eco evo interactions; Ecological genetics; Evolutionary ecology; Heterandria formosa

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOTIC FACTOR; COEXISTENCE; CYPRINID; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; RECIPROCITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FUNDULIDAE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNDULIDAE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

CYPRINODONTOIDEI; HETERANDRIA; HETERANDRIA FORMOSA;

EID: 84876379578     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/669970     Document Type: Article

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