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Lifetime Reproductive Effort, Eric Charnov, Robin Warne, Melanie Moses
Lifetime Reproductive Effort, Eric Charnov, Robin Warne, Melanie Moses
Biology Faculty & Staff Publications
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.