Reproduction in the Wild: The Effect of Individual Life History Strategies on Population Dynamics and Persistence
For a sexually reproducing species, the two major decisions facing all individuals are when and with whom to reproduce. When scaled to the population level, the outcome from all individual decisions determines reproductive variance, and age-class contribution to population growth rate. Both of these...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2010
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/271 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1271&context=open_access_dissertations |