Population density and group size effect
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Dennis Sprenger; Rolanda Lange; Nils Anthes
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Article
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2011
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BioMed Central
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English
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## Background Despite growing evidence that population dynamic processes can have substantial effects on mating system evolution, little is known about their effect on mating rates in simultaneous hermaphrodites. According to theory, mating rate is expected to increase with mate availability becaus