Adaptive parental effects: The importance of estimating environmental predictability and offspring fitness appropriately

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 769-776

  Burgess, Scott C ^a   Marshall, Dustin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDICTION;

EID: 84902551836     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01235     Document Type: Article

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