Using potential reproductive rates to predict mating competition among individuals qualified to mate

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 397-401

  Ahnesjö, Ingrid ^a   Kvarnemo, Charlotta ^b,c   Merilaita, Sami ^a,c,d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult sex ratio; Mating competition; Operational sex ratio; OSR; Potential reproductive rate; PRR; Qualified to mate; Resource competition

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0034930702     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/12.4.397     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Temperature affects male and female potential reproductive rates differently in the sex-role reversed pipefish, Syngnathus typhle
2. Courting females: Ecological constraints affect sex roles in a natural population of the blenniid fish Salaria pavo
3. Reproductive rates, operational sex ratio and mate choice in St. Peter's fish
4. Reproductive success of females limited by males in two pipefish species
5. Potential reproductive rates and the operation of sexual selection
6. Sexual selection and the potential reproductive rates of males and females
7. The effects of sex ratio on sexual competition in the European lobster
8. Lek organization and mating strategies in the bullfrog
9. Ecology, sexual selection, and the evolution of mating systems
10. The relationship between parental input and investment
11. Breeding competition in a Pacific salmon (Coho: Oncorhynchus kisutch): Measures of natural and sexual selection
12. Modes of sexual selection determined by resource abundance in two sand goby populations
13. Courtship feeding increases female reproductive success in bushcrickets
14. Mutual mate choice and sex differences in choosiness
15. Parental investment: The problem of currency
16. Temperature differentially affects male and female reproductive rates in the sand goby: Consequences for operational sex ratio
17. The dynamics of operational sex ratios and competition for mates
18. Operational sex ratios and mating competition
19. Differences in potential reproductive rates of male and female seahorses related to courtship roles
20. Sex roles are not always reversed when the potential reproductive rate is higher in females
21. Temporal variation in male traits, nesting aggregations and mating success in the peacock blenny
22. Parental investment and the control of sexual selection: Predicting the direction of sexual competition
23. Parental investment, potential reproductive rates, and mating system in the strawberry dart-poison frog, Dendrobates pumilio
24. Animal breeding systems
25. Relative parental investment, potential reproductive rates, and the control of sexual selection in katydids
26. Parental investment and the control of sexual selection: Can sperm competition affect the direction of sexual competition?
27. Chance can produce a sex difference in variance in mating success and explain Bateman's data
28. The evolutionarily stable strategy for secondary sexual characters
29. Parental investment and sexual selection
30. Operational sex ratios and behavioural sex differences in a pipefish population
31. Decoupling of reproductive rates and parental expenditure in a polyandrous butterfly
32. A review of reproductive rates in sticklebacks in relation to parental expenditure and operational sex ratios