TY - JOUR
T1 - Ecological compensation-a complication for testing life-history theory
AU - Sibly, Richard
AU - Calow, Peter
PY - 1987/3/21
Y1 - 1987/3/21
N2 - Mortality, growth and birth rates cannot vary independently in stable populations, environmental change of one variable must be accompanied by compensatory variation of another. Ecological compensation is recognized if the stable populations are genetically identical. Ecological compensation, if it operates, constrains the direction of evolutionary change, and predictions that ignore it may be in error.
AB - Mortality, growth and birth rates cannot vary independently in stable populations, environmental change of one variable must be accompanied by compensatory variation of another. Ecological compensation is recognized if the stable populations are genetically identical. Ecological compensation, if it operates, constrains the direction of evolutionary change, and predictions that ignore it may be in error.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0022-5193(87)80039-5
DO - 10.1016/S0022-5193(87)80039-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 3657207
AN - SCOPUS:0023661574
SN - 0022-5193
VL - 125
SP - 177
EP - 186
JO - Journal of Theoretical Biology
JF - Journal of Theoretical Biology
IS - 2
ER -