life tables...opposite. The organism tends to live a long life (low death rate and a high survivorship rate); toward the end of its life expectancy, however, there is a dramatic increase in the death rate. In the third type, found in birds and mice, the mortality or survivorship rate is relatively constant during the organism’s entire life....this type of survivorship curve. In some species that produce many offspring but provide little care for them ( r-selected species), mortality is greatest among the youngest individuals. The Type III survivorship curve indicative of this life history is initially very steep, which is reflective of very high mortality among the young, but flattens out as those individuals who reach...
Type III survivorship curve
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