BioConcepts

iteroparityIteroparie (ger.)

• The condition of an organism that has more than one reproductive cycle during its lifetime. (Oxford Dict. of Zoology 2009)
  category life history see also semelparity

  1954

  The contrasting condition [to ›semelparity‹] will be referred to as iteroparity. Iteroparous species include some, such as small rodents, where only two or three litters of young are produced in a lifetime, and also various trees and tapeworms where a single individual may produce thousands of litters.

  Cole, L.C. (1954). The population consequences of life history phenomena. Quart. Rev. Biol. 29, 103-137: 118.