How to balance the offspring quality-quantity trade off when environmental cues are unreliable
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2011
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Fischer, Barbara
Taborsky, Barbara
Kokko, Hanna
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Munksgaard International Publishers
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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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Keywords: environmental cue; fitness; maternal effect; phenotypic plasticity; reproductive cost; reproductive strategy; survival; trade-off
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