Runaway selection: Females choose mates without the offering of obvious material benefits or parenting skills, and instead make their choices based on plumage color or courtship peahen may choose her peacock with long tail feather.

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Under favorable circumstances, the same per unit biomass of annuals produces more seeds than the same per unit biomass of trees. 

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k-selected species

Stable populations adapted to exist at or near the carrying capacity, K

Grow slowly and reach reproductive age late, having to devote much energy to growth and maintenance

K-selected species like a tree grows large and outcompeting  other  species

Such trees have a long-life span and produce seeds repeatedly when mature

These seeds are bigger

Nonrandom matting

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Grime’s triangle is an alternative to r and K Selection by by Philips grime

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