Colder weather dampens their reproductive rate, their feeding rate.
The state wants to know about distribution, sex ratio, reproductive rate, habitat, home range.
Forest elephants are known as a "K-selected species" — a species with a low reproductive rate but high survivorship.
The slow reproductive rate is likely to delay a recovery even if fishing pressure abates, the Dalhousie researchers said.
Often small populations of two species coexist, but their members have smaller than average bodies or a low reproductive rate.
The average number of offspring that a female produces during her lifetime is called the net reproductive rate (R0).
A net reproductive rate of 1.0 indicates that a population is neither increasing nor decreasing but replacing its numbers exactly.
Other species, when their circumstances improve, react by raising their reproductive rate, not curtailing it.
Growth rate, reproductive rate and fecundity attributes, fatty acid content of B. plicatilis were amended.
Reproductive rate had the largest potential effect on the extinction threshold.
Because of the grizzly's slow reproductive rate, it will take 50 to 110 years for the population to reach the project's goal of 280 bears.
