Lifetime Reproductive Effort

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Title
Lifetime Reproductive Effort
Author(s)
Charnov, Eric
Warne, Robin
Moses, Melanie
Abstract
The concept of lifetime reproductive effort[LRE] is defined for arbitrary age structured populations. Optimal life history theory with metabolic production constraints is developed to predict the numeric value of LRE; This is tested with large data sets for mammals and lizards.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Citation
American Naturalist 170 : E129-E142 (2007)
Subject(s)
Reproduction
Mammals
Lizards
Metabolic Ecology
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1928/6924
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