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- Strategy:
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A set of decision rules, which has a genetic basis, leading to a tactic.
- Tactic:
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The behavioral phenotype, which results from a strategy. A strategy can have one, two, or several different tactics.
- Alternative reproductive tactics ARTs:
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Consistent variation in reproductive behaviors between males or females of one species.
- Alternative strategies:
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Two (or more) genetically based strategies of one sex that lead to two (or more) alternative tactics.
- Mixed strategy:
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One strategy that, depending on frequency depending selection, leads to two or more ARTs which have equal mean fitness.
- Conditional strategy:
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One strategy which determines that individuals follows a subordinate tactic with low reproductive success while they are small with low competitiveness, but switch to a dominant tactic with high reproductive success when increasing competitiveness.
- Single strategy:
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One strategy with two or more alternative tactics. The environment determines which tactic an...
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Schradin, C. (2019). Alternative Reproductive Tactics. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_322-1
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