Chapter 53.4, Problem 1CC

Summary Introduction

To explain: The environmental factors of the given water bodies affect the population growth of many species and the supportive environment foriteroparous animals.

Concept introduction: The improvement of an organism’s reproductive trait and survival chances lead in favor of Natural selection. Among every species, there are settlement between the survival of organism and reproductive success, such as the number of offspring produced by the organism and the trade off in parental care. In constant physical condition there may be chances of competition for food and shelter, like constant atmosphere makes the population more stable and the reproductive success of many species increases.

Iteroparous animals are characterized by the multiple reproductive episodes during their life time.