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#iteroparity

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Iteroparity is common in:

Perennial plants commonly survive for several years and flower or set seed on repeated occasions, making them iteroparous. Their life history retains enough resources for maintenance, storage, and future reproduction after each breeding season. Mayflies and many bamboos are familiar semelparous examples, although reproductive schedules can vary among species and should not be generalized without evidence. Allocation trade-offs arise because stored carbon, nutrients, time, and physiological capacity are finite. Reproduction can reduce maintenance and future survival, while maintenance can postp

Ref: Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems, Begon et al., 5th Ed., Ch. 5

The opposite of semelparity is:

Semelparity means concentrating reproduction into one episode, usually followed by death, whereas iteroparity means reproducing on two or more occasions. These are contrasting life-history schedules. An annual organism need not be semelparous in the broader sense, and fecundity measures offspring production rather than the number of reproductive episodes, so neither term is the conceptual opposite. Life-history traits should be interpreted as correlated tendencies rather than rigid packages. Adult survival, juvenile mortality, body size, development time, fecundity, and parental investment int

Ref: Ecology: Concepts and Applications, Molles, 9th Ed., Ch. 12