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What is bet-hedging, really?

Author

  • Jörgen Ripa
  • Helen Olofsson
  • Niclas Jonzén

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