reproductive capacity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreproductiveandcapacity
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reproductive
adjective
uk/ˌriː.prəˈdʌk.tɪv/us/ˌriː.prəˈdʌk.t̬ɪv/
relating to the process ...
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capacity
noun
uk/kəˈpæs.ə.ti/us/kəˈpæs.ə.t̬i/
the total amount that can be contained ...
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They become like competitors, and thereproductivecapacityof the one might interfere with that of the other.
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This aspect is usually overlooked, but it is clear that attempted alleviation must be considered in any sociobiological analysis ofreproductivecapacityand performance.
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They might just not have tested theirreproductivecapacityand thus there may be some latent sterility or sub-fecundity among them.
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Thus, the common use of the egg counts to measure thereproductivecapacityin echinostome infections should be reevaluated.
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This work explores how control and power have been exercised through the manipulation of societal rules regarding women's labour, sexuality andreproductivecapacity.
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Yet humanreproductivecapacityis well beyond the comparatively modest output of two female children per woman.
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Thereproductivecapacityof a species is also important in determining the dynamics of deleterious mutations and their population-level consequences in small populations.
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As indicated above, thereproductivecapacityof individuals was fixed and the population size was kept constant.
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Samples of ticks were collected regularly for measurement of theirreproductivecapacity.
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If these mutations decreasereproductivecapacity, they can lead to the extinction of the population.
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Ducks provided a desirable combination of large clutch size and large body size, resulting in a balance between biomass accumulation andreproductivecapacity.
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Thereproductivecapacityof couples, that is, their fecundity, has not received the attention it warrants in many studies of historical demography.
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Such a fetus might therefore sustain physical and functional damage which might interfere withreproductivecapacityin due course.
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These hosts might not have had sufficient time to recover fullreproductivecapacity.
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Increased inter-tree distances may constrain the movement of bats (and consequently pollen) between trees, reducing thereproductivecapacityof the non-exploited individuals and/or increasing the proportion of selfed progeny.
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This approach will help to combine the studies to unravel the mystery of primordial follicle assembly, which itself will shed light on factors determining woman'sreproductivecapacity.
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Little is known, however, about thereproductivecapacityand the fate of the propagules, and how different reproductive syndromes are represented in species of the same functional group.
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In heavily infected individuals, the host or immune response is so intense that the degeneration of the ovarian tissue occurs causing a reduction inreproductivecapacity.
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The ability of parasitized female hosts to recover a substantial proportion of theirreproductivecapacity presumably provides the selective pressure favouring the evolution of a successful host response.
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