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Title: Which of the following ecological factors would you expect to result in a short life history?
Post by: Eclipsed11 on Jan 14, 2017
Which of the following ecological factors would you expect to result in a short life history?
      
a. Environments with severe competition for access to reproductive resources.
      
b. Environments with intense predation pressure.


Title: Re: Which of the following ecological factors would you expect to result in a short life history?
Post by: bio_man on Jan 14, 2017
Both are strong selective pressures

b. Environments with intense predation pressure.

I'll choose predation only because in an environment where food is scarce, populations still tend to grow linearly.