Mammal Reproductive Strategies Driven by Offspring Mortality‐Size Relationships
- 1 June 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 173 (6) , E185-E199
- https://doi.org/10.1086/598680
Abstract
Trade‐offs have long been a major theme in life‐history theory, but they have been hard to document. We introduce a new method that reveals patterns of divergent trade‐offs after adjustin...Keywords
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