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Mortality affects adaptive allocation to growth and reproduction: field evidence from a guild of body snatchers

BACKGROUND: 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 for decreased allocation to growth and for increased re...

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Autor principal: Hechinger, Ryan F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2887408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20459643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-136