Chaotic Dynamics Can Select for Long‐Term Dormancy

Extended dormancy in a population is evolutionarily costly unless some variance in season‐to‐season fitness (usually driven by variance in environmental quality) makes bet hedging useful. Consequently, dormancy in a population is usually accepted as evidence of environmental variance. Using a Ricker...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American naturalist 2006-07, Vol.168 (1), p.127-131
Hauptverfasser:	Lalonde, R. G., Roitberg, B. D.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological Evolution Chaos theory Demography Dormancy Ecological competition Environment Evolution Genotypes Models, Biological Mortality Natural selection Nonlinear Dynamics Paradoxes Population Dynamics Seasons Selection, Genetic Time Factors
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