Life History Evolution in a "Recruitment Population": Why Are Adult Mortality Rates Constant?
- 1 September 1986
- Vol. 47 (2), 129-134
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3566037
Abstract
Adult mortality rates often vary much less through time (or with population density) than do clutch size or immature mortality rates. This observation is studie...This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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