Born at the right time? A conceptual framework linking reproduction, development, and settlement in reef fish

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Born at the right time? A conceptual framework linking reproduction, development, and settlement in reef fish

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© 2017 by the Ecological Society of America Parents are expected to make decisions about reproductive timing and investment that maximize their own fitness, even if this does not maximize the fitness of each individual offspring. When offspring survival is uncertain, selection typically favors iteroparity, which means that offspring born at some times can be disadvantaged, while others get lucky. The eventual fate of offspring may be further modified by their own decisions. Are fates of offsp...

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2017

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Jeffrey Shima / EG Noonburg / SE Swearer / SH Alonzo / CW Osenberg

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https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Born_at_the_right_time_A_conceptual_framework_...

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Ecology not elsewhere classified / Evolutionary biology not elsewhere classified / developmental delay / life history / lunar periodicity / nocturnal illumination / phenology / post-settlement processes / recruitment / reef fish / size at settlement / Animals / Coral Reefs / Fishes / Larva / Perciformes / Reproduction / Science & Technology / Life Sciences & Biomedicine / Ecology / Environmental Sciences & Ecology / ECO-EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS / LIFE-HISTORY / SEX-CHANGE / ECOLOGICAL THEATER / SITE QUALITY / RECRUITMENT / MORTALITY / FITNESS / LARVAE / ENVIRONMENTS / Ecological Applications / Evolutionary Biology

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