The opportunity for selection: A slippery concept in ecology and evolution.

What it found

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Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Measuring maternal line selection driven by differential survival in ex situ collections for plant conservation.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026
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2. Partitioning variance in reproductive success, within years and across lifetimes.Ecology and evolution · 2023
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3. A matter of time: Bateman's principles and mating success as count and duration across social strata in contemporary Finland.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023
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4. The opportunity for selection: A slippery concept in ecology and evolution.The Journal of animal ecology · 2023
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Authors and funding

3 authors.

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Abstract

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