Optimal size and number of offspring in a variable environment
- 7 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Theoretical Biology
- Vol. 150 (3), 299-304
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5193(05)80429-1
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