BIOL 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nest Box, Cestoda, Limiting Factor
12 Dec 2017
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If there are limited resources, you could feed yourself or your children: simultaneously optimise response to multiple trade-offs phenotypes that leave most copies behind. Wait 50-100 years: growth rates if you"re not well developed, you can grow really quickly to get to optimal stage quicker. E. g. , born with eyes closed, helpess (baby birds). Ducklings will automatically swim and feed: age at first reproduction, # of progeny (offspring, longevity. In low productivity not able to grow quickly, slow development rate, age of reproduction is delayed, and live longer than in individual in a more productive habitat. All things are changing at the same time due to environmental constraints: optimal strategy changes under circumstances. Traits change in correlated fashion, compartment strategies organisms either fit in one compartment or another: natural selection favours phenotypes with higher lifetime reproductive success. To just offset death individuals making decisions about how many eggs to lay.
