On Defining "Breeding Once"
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 125 (2), 189-204
- https://doi.org/10.1086/284337
Abstract
The problem of deciding the meaning of the term "breeding once" is discussed with reference to life history observations on insects, arachnids and plants. A basic difficulty lies in not separating within-season from between-season patterns of reproduction. Using 2 general life history models (for continous and discrete time, respectively), an operational definition of breeding once is provided. More-precise terminology than that currently in use is also discussed.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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