- gamete production
- mating effort
- flowers and fruit
- seeds and spores
- eggs
- gestation
- clonal propagules
- offspring provisioning
Operational definition
Allocation function.
The production of new biological units capable, immediately or eventually, of becoming independent continuations of the lineage.
Reproductive allocation includes resources devoted to:
- gametes;
- fertilization;
- eggs;
- seeds;
- spores;
- clonal propagules;
- embryos;
- reproductive structures.
Parental care after propagule or offspring production is classified separately under item 83.