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There are many different combinations and gradients betweensemelparityand iteroparity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Semelparityis an r-selected trait, whereas iteroparity is a k-selected trait.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The plants are perennial, but each rosette flowers once and then dies (seesemelparity).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Semelparityalso was found to occur in this species, but is hypothesized to occur only due to phylogenic constraints.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These trade-offs come into play in the evolution of iteroparity andsemelparity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Semelparityalso occurs in smelt and capelin, but is very rare in vertebrates other than bony fish.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These two species have the same rate of population growth, which suggests that even a tiny fecundity advantage of one additional offspring would favor the evolution ofsemelparity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.