Blackwell Publishing Ltd Gregariousness and protandry promote reproductive insurance in the invasive gastropod Crepidula fornicata: evidence from assignment of larval paternity potx

... 2006 The Authors Journal compilation © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell Publishing Ltd Gregariousness and protandry promote reproductive insurance in the invasive gastropod Crepidula ... addressing the following questions and hypotheses: (i) Does paternity come mainly from the closest male to the study mother or from the largest mal...

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... effect of warming on flowering, while, in the second year, flowering increased in the warming plots. These results were the same irrespective of whether the total number of flowers per plot or the ... also reduced in the warming treatment. The remaining components for calculating the costs of reproduction included respiration from reproductive tissues and avai...

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... Polyandry and protandry in butterflies. Bulletin of Mathem- atical Biology, 54, 957–976. Zonneveld, C. (1996a) Being big or emerging early? Polyandry and the trade-off between size and emergence in ... work on protandry has, as with asynchrony, been directed at determining benefits. Both males and females can profit from protandry, although the optimal amount of prota...

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... males in the north than in the south. The median of range size of oestrous females in the mating season was nearly twice as large in the north than in the south. Because the median range in the ... yearlings in the south. Fig. 2. Estimated marginal means of log 10 seasonal 100% minimum convex polygon (MCP) of males and oestrous females in the sou...

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... fledging over the whole breeding season or the probability of fledging any young. The date the first egg was laid was used as the measure of the beginning of the breeding season for a female. The ... the female is a yearling. Thus, from the perspective of a dominant male, philo- patric sons act as insurance against breeding in future with yearling females. The b...

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... with the support and guidance of their parents and in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.” (paragraph 6.15) Delegations from the MENA region (and Muslim countries outside the ... countries in the region with secular laws governing their family codes. CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD Adopted in 1989, the Convention on the Rights...

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... inside a clay nest. Note the hands and snout of the female carrying clay, and the hand of the male at the angle of the female's jaw. Hylafaber females deposited clutches of 1000 to 2700 eggs ... by the males. Males were observed chasing intruders, making splashing noises by jumping into the water, and fighting inside or as far as 2 m from their nests. Ampl...

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... in the region. 18 Use of family planning contributes to mater- nal and infant health and survival by reducing the number of unplanned pregnancies. Reducing the number of deliveries and increasing ... decisionmak- ing and the overall development process. Conclusions Investing in women’s reproductive health not only advances human rights and improves the health...

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... in the region. 18 Use of family planning contributes to mater- nal and infant health and survival by reducing the number of unplanned pregnancies. Reducing the number of deliveries and increasing ... decisionmak- ing and the overall development process. Conclusions Investing in women’s reproductive health not only advances human rights and improves the health...

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... and national planning agendas This greater diversity, and a health landscape that is increasingly crowded in terms of actors and issues, have increased the challenge of maintaining the profile ... with the principles and practice of aid effectiveness, and the drive towards achieving the MDGs. The MDG5 focus and sexual and reproductive health The glob...

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