Offspring size-number trade-off in a lizard with small clutch sizes: tests of invariants and potential implications
Models of small clutch sizes predict a number of invariant relationships between means and variances of measures of reproductive investment. However, empirical tests of the models have been lagging behind theoretical work. We tested the predictions using data on the mallee dragon, Ctenophorus fordi,...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2009
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