Which of the following describes a type III survivorship curve?
A) Most individuals die of old age. B) Many individuals die early in life. C) Individuals die at a constant rate throughout time. D) Most individuals die during their reproductive years. E) Most individuals die before old age, but after their reproductive years.
A) There is no niche for gigantic insects. B) There are gigantic insects in remote regions of the tropics; we just have not discovered them. C) The concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere is too low to make gigantic body size in insects efficient. D) There is no evidence of gigantic insects in the past, so there can not be any alive today due to constraining evolution.