Which species likely shows all three extremes: growth, survival, fecundity?
“Elephant” for which species likely shows all three extremes: growth, survival, fecundity. This relationship follows from the ecological mechanism represented by the terms in the item, not merely from an association between their names. Selection favors the schedule that increases lifetime reproductive success under local mortality and resource conditions. Body size, development time, fecundity, parental investment, and generation length consequently tend to covary. The remaining alternatives—“Annual grass”, “Banana”, “None”—refer to different states, processes, or scales and therefore do not
Ref: Plant Strategies and Vegetation Processes, Grime, 2nd Ed.