Bet-hedging as a complex interaction among developmental instability, environmental heterogeneity, dispersal, and life-history strategy

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 505-515

  Scheiner, Samuel M ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Developmental instability; Environmental heterogeneity; Model; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894037716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.951     Document Type: Article

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