Competition level determines compensatory growth abilities
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Competition level determines compensatory growth abilities
In many animal taxa, size-selective predation favors fast growth early in life. However, same-aged juveniles can diverge in size due to differences in genotype, environmental conditions, and parental effects and thus may vary in competitive ability. Under food scarcity, competitively inferior juveniles may suffer suppressed growth, whereas under benign conditions, small juveniles may exhibit gr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral Ecology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1465-7279,1045-2249
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars013