Browsing Institutt for biologi by Author "Ratikainen, Irja Ida"
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Short‐term insurance versus long‐term bet‐hedging strategies as adaptations to variable environments
Haaland, Thomas; Wright, Jonathan; Tufto, Jarle; Ratikainen, Irja Ida (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Understanding how organisms adapt to environmental variation is a key challenge of biology. Central to this are bet‐hedging strategies that maximize geometric mean fitness across generations, either by being conservative ... -
Territoriality and nest competition in the two-spotted goby (Pomatoschistus flavescens)
Gavriilidi, Ioanna Aikaterini (Master thesis, 2019)Intra-sexual competition plays an important role in the evolutionary process of sexual selection. Male-male competition over resources that are essential for mating success may prevent unsuccessful competitors from breeding. ... -
The coevolution of lifespan and reversible plasticity
Ratikainen, Irja Ida; Kokko, Hanna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Reversible phenotypic plasticity, the ability to change one’s phenotype repeatedly throughout life, can be selected for in environments that do not stay constant throughout an individual’s lifetime. It might also mitigate ...