Browsing Biological Sciences by Subject "life history"
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Evolution of life histories along elevational gradients: Trade-off between parental care and fecundity
(2020-04-20)
Life history responses to environmental conditions include a combination of fecundity-survival schedules and behavioral strategies that yield the highest fitness in a given environment. In this study, we examined the pattern ...
A test of reproductive power in snakes
(2022-12-06)
Reproductive power is a contentious concept among ecologists, and the model has been criticized on theoretical and empirical grounds. Despite these criticisms, the model has successfully predicted the modal (optimal) size ...