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The Insurance Hypothesis and the Theory of Clutch Size in Birds and in Invertebrates

  • Hardy I
The Auk (1992) 109(4) 936-937
DOI: 10.2307/4088180
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The theory of adaptive clutch size, used for altricial birds, maintains that selection maximizes the number of young produced per nest. This is now applied to invertebrates. Author distressed that ecology many have unnecessary taxonomic divides within it.

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Hardy, I. C. W. (1992). The Insurance Hypothesis and the Theory of Clutch Size in Birds and in Invertebrates. The Auk, 109(4), 936–937. https://doi.org/10.2307/4088180

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