This paper is concerned with the effect of disturbance on some crucial characteristics of annual plants. The theoretically optimal life-history traits that maximize individual fitness in disturbed environments are described and critically evaluated. It seems that none of them holds for all annual sp
The evolution of competitive strategies in annual plants
โ Scribed by Stephen P. Bonser; Brenton Ladd
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 237 KB
- Volume
- 212
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1385-0237
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
From an ecological point of view, probably the major feature of Darwin's account of natural selection is the critical shift of perspective that marked his work after 1856. Having discovered the intimate connection between population pressure and species multiplication or divergence, Darwin moved the
The characteristics governing the dynamics of populations can evolve and this evolution can either be towards stability or chaos. Yet it is not obvious how or why such population characteristics can evolve through selection on individuals. In this paper we construct a mathematical model, inspired by