ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sexual Maturity, Statistical Parameter, Menarche
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Iteroparity: expending one"s resources & dying in a single reproductive effort, common among plants (e. g. annuals, when you put all of your productive energy and resource into a single reproductive event. There is a correlation between body size and sexual maturity: maturity, how large an organism should grow before reproduction. Elephant seals: females tend to reach sexual maturity as early as 3 years of age whereas males tend to reach maturity at 10-12 years of age. R versus k strategy - robert mcarthur (1962: r: a measure of the intrinsic rate of increase of the size of a population free from resource limitations, tend to have unlimited environmental resources for the offspring. This makes sense for them to be prolific breeders: k: the maximum population that a species can maintain in a particular habitat, i. e. carrying capacity of habitat. Oct. 23, 2014: tend to have one offspring at a time, and have long inter-birth intervals.
