REPRODUCTION IN A TYPICAL CAPITAL BREEDER: COSTS, CURRENCIES, AND COMPLICATIONS IN THE ASPIC VIPER

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Climate affects embryonic development in a viviparous snake (2004, methodology): “Details on the field site, methods and searching effort are available in related works (Bonnet et al. 2000, 2001, 2002).”
Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation (2012, background): “Islands can also be very productive systems that enable snakes to achieve large body size and population densities depending on the type, size, and abundance of prey (Bonnett et al. 2002; Sun et al. 2001).”
Life-History Evolution in Reptiles (2005, background): “…(energy-storage) threshold needed to initiate breeding in female snakes is relatively constant from year to year, although variation in prey abundance generates corresponding variation in the proportion of adult-size female snakes that will reproduce in any given year (Bonnet et al. 2002).”
Noninvasive unmanned aerial vehicle provides estimates of the energetic cost of reproduction in humpback whales (2016, background): “For capital breeding animals, where the costs of reproduction are met by endogenous energy stores during a period of fasting (Stephens et al. 2009), the link between body condition and reproduction is particularly strong (FestaBianchet et al. 1998, Bonnet et al. 2002).”