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Age-specific residual reproductive value and reproductive effort in the Iceland scallop,Chlamys islandica(O.F. Müller)
✍ Scribed by Ola Vahl
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 423 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0029-8549
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✦ Synopsis
The possibility for a trade-off between age-specific residual reproductive value (RRV) and reproductive effort (RE) was investigated. Different ways of estimating RE did not affect conclusions which were: a) there is no clear trade-off between RRV and RE until the scallop has reached an age of about 13 years, i.e. after a reproductive life of about eight years; b) the larva of C. islandica is more important as a means of dispersal than as a means of maintaining the parent population.