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Dr. Peter H. Niewiarowski

2015

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Effects Of Mortality Risk And Growth On A Model Of Reproductive Effort: Why The Shine And Schwarzkopf Model Is Not General, Peter Niewiarowski, Arthur Dunham Mar 2015

Effects Of Mortality Risk And Growth On A Model Of Reproductive Effort: Why The Shine And Schwarzkopf Model Is Not General, Peter Niewiarowski, Arthur Dunham

Dr. Peter H. Niewiarowski

Using data and reanalysis of a model published by Shine and Schwarzkopf (1992), we reject the two unsubstantiated assertions made by Shine et al. (1996) about modeling the evolution of reproductive effort in squamate reptiles.