Reproductive effort is inversely proportional to average adult life span

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1221-1222

  Charnov, Eric L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Life history; Optimization; Trade offs; Williams' hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 31044434244     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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