The Ecological and Evolutionary Importance of Variation in Life History Reaction Norms

Integrative Organismal Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 23-38

  Nussey, Daniel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecologically realistic reaction norms; Life history plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947475211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118398814.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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