Nomadic-colonial life strategies enable paradoxical survival and growth despite habitat destruction

Organisms often exhibit behavioral or phenotypic diversity to improve population fitness in the face of environmental variability. When each behavior or phenotype is individually maladaptive, alternating between these losing strategies can counter-intuitively result in population persistence–an outc...

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Main Authors: Zhi Xuan Tan, Kang Hao Cheong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2017-01-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/21673