The Costs of Reproduction and Their Consequences
- 1 July 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 116 (1), 45-76
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283611
Abstract
The effects of different types of reproductive cost on the pattern of life histories [animal] are examined. Reproductive cost may be the generally deleterious effect of present reproduction on future survival or fecundity or both. The circumstances in which reproduction at a given age should be maximal, and the conditions under which reproduction at given age should be zero are discussed. Semelparity and of the optimal age at maturity are considered. A model applicable for homoiotherms and poikilotherms is presented.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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