Fission in a colonial marine invertebrate signifies unique life history strategies rather than being a demographic trait

Abstract Each of the few known life-history strategies (e.g., r/K and parity [semelparity and iteroparity]), is a composite stratagem, signified by co-evolved sets of trade-offs with stochastically distributed variations that do not form novel structured strategies. Tracking the demographic traits o...

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Main Authors: Oshrat Ben-Hamo, Ido Izhaki, Rachel Ben-Shlomo, Baruch Rinkevich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18550-9