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| Title |
The continuum between semelparity and iteroparity: plastic expression of parity in response to season length manipulation in Lobelia inflata
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, April 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-14-90 |
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| Authors |
P William Hughes, Andrew M Simons |
| Abstract |
Semelparity and iteroparity are considered to be distinct and alternative life-history strategies, where semelparity is characterized by a single, fatal reproductive episode, and iteroparity by repeated reproduction throughout life. However, semelparous organisms do not reproduce instantaneously; typically reproduction occurs over an extended time period. If variation in reproductive allocation exists within such a prolonged reproductive episode, semelparity may be considered iteroparity over a shorter time scale.This continuity hypothesis predicts that "semelparous" organisms with relatively low probability of survival after age at first reproduction will exhibit more extreme semelparity than those with high probability of adult survival. This contrasts with the conception of semelparity as a distinct reproductive strategy expressing a discrete, single, bout of reproduction, where reproductive phenotype is expected to be relatively invariant. Here, we manipulate expected season length--and thus expected adult survival--to ask whether Lobelia inflata, a classic "semelparous" plant, exhibits plasticity along a semelparous-iteroparous continuum. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 59 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 58 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 17% |
| Researcher | 10 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 8% |
| Unknown | 10 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 31 | 53% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 7% |
| Mathematics | 2 | 3% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 3% |
| Unknown | 14 | 24% |