Jensen’s inequality and optimal life history strategies in stochastic environments

Optimizing reproduction in a randomly varying environment

Dan Cohen · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 1966 · 1.5K citations

Biology, Evolution Strategy, Fertility +5

How should we define ‘fitness’ for general ecological scenarios?

J.A.J. Metz, Roger M. Nisbet, Stefan A.H. Geritz · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1992 · 1.1K citations

Fitness, Evolutionary Biology, General Ecological Scenarios +2

Hedging one's evolutionary bets, revisited

Tom Philippi, Jon Seger · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1989 · 885 citations

Economics, Evolutionary Game Theory, Evolutionary Biology +8

Jensen’s inequality predicts effects of environmental variation

Jonathan J. Ruel · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1999 · 834 citations

Environmental Variation, Environmental Economics, Environmental Trend +1

Optimal Reproductive Effort in Fluctuating Environments

William M. Schaffer · The American Naturalist · 1974 · 684 citations

Fertility, Fitness, Population Dynamic +16