The juvenile mortality rate varies between 60 and 80percentt.
This relatively flat curve reflects low juvenile mortality, with most individuals living to old age.
Victorian literature, belonging to an age when people had — and lost — more children than is common today, treated juvenile mortality as an opportunity for high, almost consoling, sentiment.
Knowing the location of these target areas will help to plan adequate conservation programs to reduce the high juvenile mortality rates this species is suffering presently.
If you're a species in which infant and juvenile mortality is comparatively great, as it is with giant tortoises, for example, the emphasis is often on making the best of adulthood, with delayed maturity and extended life spans.
Such characteristics may include large size at reproductive maturity or slow increase in fecundity with size, fine-scale spatial genetic structure, low population densities, limited pollen dispersal, or high juvenile mortality.
He should have mentioned that the more comprehensive health-care systems of every other developed democracy cost from half to two-thirds what Americans pay — per person and as a portion of the economy — while producing better overall results in terms of lower juvenile mortality, longer life spans and better health outcomes in most regards.
Open image in new window Fig. 5 Bioassay of crude antibiotic on egg hatching and juvenile mortality of M. incognita.
A gradual increase in juvenile mortality was observed with the increase in concentration of the crude antibiotic of Bbv 57 and with the increase in exposure time.
The highest juvenile mortality (87%) was recorded in the 100% concentration of the crude antibiotic after 72 h of exposure (Fig. 5).
That inbreeding causes juvenile mortality is "very old hat," Caro says, but the link between inbreeding and infectious diseases is new.
