Animal Diversity 7th Edition by Cleveland Hickman,Larry Roberts,Susan Keen ,Allan Larson,David Eisenhour

تمرين 6

Explain which of the three survivorship curves in figure 2.4 best fits the following: (a) a population in which mortality as a proportion of survivors is constant; (b) a population in which few individuals die early and most individuals live to old age; (c) a population in which the very young experience heavy mortality but the survivors live to old age. Offer an example from the real world of each survivorship pattern.