Mammals, resources and reproductive strategies
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 273 (5659) , 191-195
- https://doi.org/10.1038/273191a0
Abstract
The breeding systems of mammalian species are strongly influenced by the density and dispersion of their populations. These in turn are affected by variations in the distribution of resources. Through quantitative comparisons it is possible to trace evolutionary relationships between feeding behavior, population dispersion, breeding systems and morphology.This publication has 50 references indexed in Scilit:
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