population is a combination of Slobodkin's Types IV and III, with egg mortality being close to 100%, juvenile mortality being close to 0, and adult mortality being constant and independent of age. Contrary to popular belief, juvenile Chrysemys recruited into the population have an extremely high survival rate and will usually live to reach maturity.
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J. Whitfield Gibbons (1968) studied this question.
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