Trivers-Willard hypothesis

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Definition

Theory predicting that parents should bias investment in offspring towards the sex that will yield the higher fitness returns when in good condition or when offspring sex ratios are biased offspring sex ratios

Trivers-Willard hypothesis

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Publications (5)

Impacts of drought gradient on pollen limitation in flowers in dry subalpine meadows

Female kin density affects offspring sex ratio in an asocial mammal, the golden-mantled ground squirrell <i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>

On theory in ecology

Bringing the male side of plant sex into focus

Foraging Differences Between Sexes in Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum

Related Concepts (10)

Ecosystem diversity

Temperature

Resource Capability Analysis (RCA)

Metapopulation connectivity

Marshallian consumer surplus

Stochastic events

species diversity index

Pollinator-Plant Interactions

Demographic Distribution

Population viability

Frequently Associated Species

Lathyrus lanszwertii var. leucanthus

Urocitellus richardsonii

Boechera stricta

Callospermophilus lateralis

Drosophila melanogaster

Lathyrus lanszwertii

Viola praemorsa

Ambystoma mavortium

Fragaria virginiana

Engelmann Spruce