Traits:Lifehistory

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Life history

Life history: Traits that describe the life history characteristics of an organism

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Has Values:

• Life history
  • Age at maturity
  • Brooding behaviour
    • Brooding
    • Non-brooding
  • Clutch size
  • Dormancy/Diapause Stage
    • Adult
    • Eggs
    • Juveniles
    • None
    • Seeds (plants)
    • Specialised stage
  • Larval or juvenile dispersal potential
  • Egg, egg mass or clutch location
    • Adult burrow
    • Brood chamber
    • Cemented or attached
      • Adult body
      • Sediment surface
      • Rock (hard substrata)
      • Vegetation
    • Egg sac
    • Free or water column
    • Sediment surface
  • Egg or propagule size
  • Fecundity
  • Fertilization
    • External
      • Broadcast
    • Internal
      • Pollination (plants)
      • Spermcast
  • Gamete type
    • Anisogamous
    • Isogamous
    • Oogamous
  • Generation time
  • Larval and juvenile development
    • Direct development
      • Oviparous
        • No care
        • Parental Care
      • Ovoviviparous
      • Viviparous
        • No care
        • Parental care
    • Lecithotrophic
    • Planktotrophic
  • Larval settlement period
  • Duration of larval stage
  • Larval settlement substratum
  • Life cycle
    • Diplontic
    • Haploid-diploid (haplodiplontic)
      • Heteromorphic
      • Isomorphic
    • Haplontic
  • Life span
  • Reproductive Frequency
    • Bivoltine
    • Iteroparous (polytely)
      • Annual episodic
      • Annual protracted
      • <Biannual
      • Biannual episodic
      • Biannual protracted
    • Multivoltine
    • Semelparous (monotely)
    • Semivoltine
    • Univoltine
  • Reproductive season
  • Reproductive type
    • Alternation of generations
    • Asexual reproduction
      • Apomictic parthenogenesis
      • Vegetative reproduction
        • Budding
        • Fission
    • Sexual reproduction
      • Gonochorisitc (dioecious)
        • Arrhenotoky
        • Pseudo-arrhenotoky
      • Hermaphrodite (monoecious)
        • Automictic parthenogenesis
        • Permanent (synchronous) hermaphrodite
          • Non-selfing
          • Self-fertilizing
        • Sequential hermaphrodite
          • Protandrous
          • Protogynous
    • Sporogenesis