The project involved 14 farms representing a large range of variation in resource endowment.
Furthermore, variation in resource availability will influence reproductive rates, especially among fawn females.
These predictions could enable a broader understanding of how genetic variation is translated into variation in resource use.
In contrast to the existing mangrove stand models, BETTINA focusses explicitly on the processes leading to variation in resource availability.
In contrast, abiotic heterogeneity due to spatial variation in resource supply ratios generates local-scale ASE and ensures regional coexistence with sufficiently broad environmental gradients.
Then, we analysed the variation in resource (cash, labour, N) use efficiency within farms of different resource endowments with the aid of the simulation model.
The link between individual variation in resource selection (e.g., functional response) and fitness creates a foundation for understanding wildlife-habitat relationships.
The mobile pastoral system in the far north region of Cameroon is an excellent example of the paradox of pastoral land tenure, in that pastoralists need secure access to pasture and water, but also flexibility in resource use, i.e. the ability to move elsewhere because of spatio-temporal variation in resource availability.
In contrast, under isolated conditions and full feeding, genetic variation in resource acquisition is fully expressed, thus masking genetic variation in resource allocation and leading to positive correlations between egg size, clutch size and reproductive investment (Figure 4).
Their tadpoles are unusual in that they exhibit considerable variation in resource use, morphology, and life history, even within a single clutch.
Life-history theory predicts that if variation in resource availability is predictable, or depends on age, plasticity of reproductive allocation should be selected for [1].
