Essays about: "Elisabet Åkerlund"
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1. Which is the costlier sex? : Sexual dimorphism and resource allocation in a dioecious herb, Silene dioica
University essay from Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskapAbstract : Life-history theory proposes that different activities, such as growth, maintenance and reproduction compete for limited resources and therefore, life-history traits are bound together by physiological trade-offs. In dioecious species, females are assumed to invest a higher amount of resources in reproduction in comparison with males and this higher investment in reproduction is then assumed to have numerous consequences for the expression of other life-history traits. READ MORE
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