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Changing reproductive effort within a semelparous reproductive episode.
American journal of botany - 1 Aug 2014
Hughes P William, Simons Andrew M
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UNLABELLED: • PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between current and future reproduction for iteroparous organisms-as individuals age, the expected value of future reproduction declines, and thus reproductive effort is expected to be higher in later clutches than in earlier. In contrast, models explaining the evolution of semelparity treat semelparous reproduction as instantaneous,...
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