Question

Stephen Stearns introduced this term in proposing that variable juvenile mortality could explain why birds produce smaller clutches than Lack’s principle might suggest. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this term for strategies that decrease both arithmetic mean fitness and temporal variance in fitness.
ANSWER: bet-hedging [or word forms such as hedge bets]
[10e] Bet-hedging may underlie the delay in this process among dormant seeds. Horticulturists may promote this process using scarification or cold stratification.
ANSWER: germination [or word forms of germinate]
[10m] Among desert annuals, Jennifer Gremer and Larry Venable showed that competition alters the germination strategy that has this property. A strategy has this property when it resists invasion by any mutant strategy.
ANSWER: evolutionary stable strategy [or evolutionarily stable strategy; or evolutionary stability; ESS]

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Chicago AFlorida A0101020
Columbia ACornell B0000
Columbia BVanderbilt A010010
Duke AWUSTL A010010
Florida BPurdue A010010
Georgia Tech AChicago B0101020
Georgia Tech BWUSTL B010010
Harvard AIndiana A010010
Imperial ARutgers B0101020
Iowa State AMcGill A010010
Johns Hopkins AMichigan A010010
Maryland AStanford A0101020
Minnesota ANorthwestern A010010
Minnesota BUC Berkeley B0101020
NYU AHouston A010010
North Carolina AMIT A0101020
Ohio State ABrown A0101020
Penn AClaremont A010010
Rutgers ASouth Carolina A010010
Toronto AChicago C0000
UC Berkeley ATexas A0101020
Virginia AIllinois A010010
Yale ACornell A010010
Yale BPenn State A010010