Coexistence of defended and undefended plants may be maintained by herbivory. In the present paper this phenomenon is analyzed by means of evolutionary game theory. The plants in the model play either a defensive or a non-defensive strategy and they interact indirectly: when a plant is grazed its co
Differential offensive-defensive games between plants and herbivores
β Scribed by P.L. Antonelli; J.M. Skowronski
- Book ID
- 103645131
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1987
- Weight
- 361 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-0255
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