r-selected
Americanadjective
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The regulation of population growth by these factors can be used to introduce a classical concept in population biology, that of K-selected versus r-selected species.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Why doesn’t a frog, which is an r-selected species, care for its offspring in the way a wolf, which is a K- selected species, cares for its offspring?
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Animals that are r-selected do not give long-term parental care and the offspring are relatively mature and self-sufficient at birth.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Species are divided into two categories based on a variety of features of their life history patterns: r-selected species, which have large numbers of offspring, and K-selected species, which have few offspring.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Ungulates practise K-selection and are viviparous; Mesozoic dinosaurs seem to have been mostly r-selected, and of course they were oviparous nest-builders.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2012
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