Fecundity

Fecundity Selection
The production of a large number of mature offspring is a measure of fitness. I stress mature because only they can pass these traits on to another generation. Some ways to do this: ...

Fecundity: The number of eggs produced per female per unit time (often: per spawning season).

Fecundity
Power of a species to multiply rapidly; capacity to form reproductive elements. One measure of fitness.
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Fecundity selection
The forces acting to cause one genotype to be more fertile than another genotype.
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fecundity The physical ability to reproduce.
feedback loops A sequence of events in which the level of a hormone or related endocrine product circulating in the blood leads to alterations in the rate of production and release of other hormones from ...

The fecundity of both females and males (for example, giant sperm in certain species of Drosophila[8]) can be limited via fecundity selection.

The process in nature whereby one genotype leaves more offspring than another genotype because of superior life history attributes ( fitness)such as survival or fecundity.
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There was a shift in fecundity to younger age classes in the fast-growing strain. Longevity of the fast-growing strain was 28% shorter than longevity in the parental strain.

Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.

It can be seen as the extent to which an individual successfully passes on its genes to the next generation. It has two components: survival (viability) and reproductive success (fecundity).

Lizards that act out the courtship ritual have greater fecundity than those kept in isolation due to the increase in hormones that accompanies the fake sex.

See also: Life, Selection, Organ, Species, Survival