How to balance the offspring quality–quantity tradeoff when environmental cues are unreliable
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B. Fischer ([email protected]), Center for Ecological Evolutionary Synthesis, Dept of Biology, Univ. of Oslo, Norway. – B. Taborsky and BF, Int. Inst. for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, and: Dept of Behavioural Ecology, Zoological Inst., Univ. of Bern, Switzerland. BF and H. Kokko, Dept of Biological and Environmental Science, Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. HK also at: Research School of Biology, The Australian National Univ., Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011