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What is bet-hedging, really?

Ripa, Jörgen LU orcid ; Olofsson, Helen and Jonzén, Niclas LU (2009) In Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277(1685). p.1153-1154
Abstract
Bet-hedging is defined as a strategy that reduces the temporal variance in fitness at the expense of a lowered arithmetic mean fitness. After a few technical points, we will here argue that this definition of bet-hedging is badly suited for models with density- and/or frequency-dependent fitness. A strict interpretation cannot be employed; possibly, a modified definition is necessary.
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1471-2954
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10.1098/rspb.2009.2023
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  title        = {{What is bet-hedging, really?}},
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