What is bet-hedging, really?
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Summary, in English
Bet-hedging is defined as a strategy that reduces the temporal variance in fitness at the expense of a lowered arithmetic mean fitness. After a few technical points, we will here argue that this definition of bet-hedging is badly suited for models with density- and/or frequency-dependent fitness. A strict interpretation cannot be employed; possibly, a modified definition is necessary.
Publishing year
2009-12-16
Language
English
Pages
1153-1154
Publication/Series
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Volume
277
Issue
1685
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Royal Society Publishing
Topic
- Biological Sciences
Status
Published
Research group
- Theoretical Population Ecology and Evolution Group
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1471-2954