Sentence examples for reproductive resources from inspiring English sources

"Both crime and genius are manifestations of young men's competitive desires to gain access to women's reproductive resources," he concludes.

But this won't work for us; unlike insects, all humans compete for reproductive resources.

Territorial species vary significantly in their associated reproductive strategies, reproductive resources and size.

Recent developments in the study of mating behaviour have emphasized the importance of strategic investment of limited reproductive resources.

Women therefore face stronger incentives to spend their relatively limited reproductive resources on only the most attractive men, whose children will be most likely to breed in turn.

Because all males are phenotypically plastic in the time spent using alternative behaviours, the expression is likely to be condition dependent on some environmental cue, such as the availability of reproductive resources (i.e. females and carcasses).

Such simultaneous investigation could partition direct effects of light availability on plant reproduction through reproductive resource from indirect effects through changes in pollinator visitation rates.

Also, they outline how selection may have acted on gene networks that affect reproductive resource allocation and behavior to facilitate the evolution of social foraging in honey bees.

In our experimental design, pool size was constant (approx. 20 L), because pools were originally established for a study on reproductive resource supplementation (Ringler et al. 2015).

In an A. femoralis population where males had only ephemeral bodies of water available for tadpole deposition, we added an array of artificial pools as a new reproductive resource, using the established approach of Zimmerman and Simberloff (1996) to mimic a forest patch that was modified by peccaries (Tayassuidae) through trampling and wallowing.

Thirty artificial pools (30 × 30 × 20 cm) were placed in a 6 by 5 array with ∼10 m distance between pools in the centre of our study plot in 2009, originally for another study on the effects of reproductive resource supplementation in A. femoralis (Ringler et al. 2015).