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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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2017-01-01
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/21673 |