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preoviposition mortality

Scope: population ecology
Papers: 1 | Mentions: 1

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Knowledge graph centered on preoviposition mortality with 9 nodes and 17 connections. Top connected: early-life trade-offs, oviposition host plant choice, automated temperature logging, aerial predation, fish predation.

Definition

Death of female insects before they have completed egg laying, resulting in loss of reproductive potential

Publications (1)

article

A comparative study of the cost of alternative mayfly oviposition behaviors.

2007Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologycentral

Related Concepts (4)

early-life trade-offs

theory1 shared paper

oviposition host plant choice

process1 shared paper

aerial predation

process1 shared paper

fish predation

process1 shared paper