Sentence examples for in current reproduction from inspiring English sources

Life-history theory predicts that fitness is optimized by balancing investment in current reproduction with costs of reducing an individual's ability to invest in future reproduction [1].

Small mammals have relatively high extrinsic mortality rates and, thus, primiparous females may invest relatively more in current reproduction because of a lower expectation of future reproduction [57].

Alternatively, birds that undertake high parental investments in current reproduction relative to their condition may run out of time and/or deplete their finite resources [69], reflecting a trade-off between breeding and molt [19] [21].

Those birds are more likely to postpone the start of molt which are late breeders [22], which also applies for their late fledging offspring [23], and engage in high investment in current reproduction [24], [25].

Moreover, males that invested more in current reproduction subsequently developed a smaller badge.

Therefore, females might invest more in current reproduction when mated to more attractive partners (the differential allocation hypothesis, DAH; Burley 1986).

Our explanation is that females tend to divert their current surplus energy not used in the current reproduction to production of larger eggs in the GH population, but to production of an additional clutch in the HD population.

When expected lifespan declines, future reproduction is traded off in favor of current reproduction.

However, investment in growth theoretically diverts resources from current reproduction, resulting in an allocation trade-off.

As we have shown, subordinates may be prepared to increase their payments in return for opportunities for current reproduction (the 'pay-to-reproduce' hypothesis).

Current reproduction may reduce future survival for the parent and hence reduce the reproductive chances in the future (Bell 1980; Lessells 1991; Forbes 1993; Carey and Gruenfelder 1997).