Mortality affects adaptive allocation to growth and reproduction: field evidence from a guild of body snatchers
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The probability of being killed by external factors (extrinsic mortality) should influence how individuals allocate limited resources to the competing processes of growth and reproduction. Increased extrinsic mortality should select...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/136 |