Reproductive effort in molluscs
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Robert A. Browne; W. D. Russell-Hunter
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Article
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1978
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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A survey of the available molluscan literature shows that reproductive effort is higher in semelparous species (29.90%) than in iteroparous species (18.21%), and that in iteroparous species reproductive effort increases with successive breeding seasons. Oviparous species were found to divert conside