Using potential reproductive rates to predict mating competition among individuals qualified to mate

By I. Ahnesjö, C. Kvarnemo, S. Merilaita. 2001

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Sexual selection in females (2009, background): “…the potential rate at which males and females can process partners of the opposite sex (potential reproductive rate; Clutton-Brock & Parker 1992; Ahnesjo et al. 2001) and leads to biases in the operational sex ratio (OSR: the ratio of males and females ready to breed at a particular time; Emlen…”
Parental investment, sexual selection and sex ratios (2008, background): “It also does not apply in some marine species where sperm limitation is a problem (Levitan & Petersen, 1995; Levitan, 2002), but in these species there is also no parental care.”
Female mating failures in insects (2010, background): “…maturation period (van Buskirk, 1987; Anholt, 1991), adult diapause (Popov & Veerman, 1996; Baer & Schmid-Hempel, 2005; Kobayashi & Osakabe, 2009), migration events (Torres-Vila & McNeil, 2001; Zhao et al., 2009), or limited access to resources essential for breeding (Ahnesjö et al., 2001)].”
Lonely hearts or sex in the city? Density-dependent effects in mating systems (2006, background): “Operational sex ratios are not the only demographic factors that respond to nest site availability (Ahnesjö et al. 2001), the overall density of a population should follow from density-dependent reproduction too, Phil.”