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How to balance the offspring quality-quantity trade off when environmental cues are unreliable

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Fischer, Barbara; Taborsky, Barbara; Kokko, Hanna

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Maternal effects on offspring size can have a strong effect on fitness, as larger offspring often survive better under harsh environmental conditions. Selection should hence favour mothers that find an optimal solution to the offspring size versus number

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Date published: 2011
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/64072
Source: Oikos
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18642.x

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