You construct a life table for a plant species and find that in all cases about the same proportion of the cohort survive to the beginning of the next time interval. What would you call this?

A. a Type I survivorship curve
B. populations regulated by density-independent events
C. a Type III survivorship curve
D. a Type II survivorship curve
E. a semelparous life history adaptation


Answer: D

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