Fecundity

... not necessarily true. I cannot find it right now but I read that in the US the very rich tend to also have larger than average families. While the fecundity of the poor was rather low. This is not to say that your theory is absolutely, wrong, but mostly that views based on anecdotes and prejudices ...

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... of an herbivore will be typically longer than the plants it eats, and the carnivore's lifecycle will be comparable to the herbivore's. Also fecundity was mentioned (number of offspring). That's important. Plant lifecycle may be shorter, but it's capable of producing many many more offspring ...

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... usually mean extinction because while the preditor numbers are reduced, the prey has time to recover. - Demographics (ie. Survival, dispersal, fecundity) - these will give you your growth rate. They will be different for each organism at leach stage of its life. You can add this in by creating ...

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I cannot understand the difference between fertility fecundity "natality rate" "fertility rate" and "birth rate". Can anyone help me? Thanks

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... flies, the vectors of African trypanosomes, feed exclusively on blood and rely on one such intracellular microbe for nutritional provisioning and fecundity . As a result of co-evolution with hosts over millions of years, these mutualists have lost the ability to survive outside the sheltered environment ...

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