Optimal phenotypic plasticity in a stochastic environment minimises the cost/benefit ratio
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Optimal phenotypic plasticity in a stochastic environment minimizes the cost/benefit ratio
This paper addresses the question of optimal phenotypic plasticity as a response to environmental fluctuations while optimizing the cost/benefit ratio, where the cost is energetic expense of plasticity, and benefit is fitness. The dispersion matrix Σ of the genes’ response (H = ln|Σ|) is used: (i) in a numerical model as a metric of the phenotypic variance reduction in the course of fitness opt...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecological Modelling
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0304-3800
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.05.019