▪ Abstract The functional causes of life history trade-offs have been a topic of interest to
evolutionary biologists for over six decades. Our review of life history trade-offs discusses …

In so far as it is associated with declining fertility and increasing mortality, senescence is
directly detrimental to reproductive success. Natural selection should therefore act in the …

Recently developed techniques for estimating bacterial biom! lSS and productivity indicate
that bacterial biomass In the sea Is related to phytoplankton ('Oncentration and that bacteria …

Trade-offs represent the costs paid in the currency of fitness when a beneficial change in
one trait is linked to a detrimental change in another. If there were no trade-offs, then …

Covering not only brown trout, but also their close relatives, this book provides valuable
information which is also relevant to animal ecology. The book highlights the global success …

This concise, readable introduction to limnology (the science of investigating the structure
and function of inland waters), places the subject in the context of modern ecology. Unlike …

A unique interdisciplinary overview of the way mammals reproduce, this volume synthesizes
research done by laboratory physiologists, behaviorists, population ecologists, and animal …

Animals are frequently faced with trade-offs created by the fact that both resource acquisition
and risk of mortality increase with activity, for example, with foraging speed or time spent …

In this paper we show how animal personality could explain some of the large inter‐
individual variation in resting metabolic rate (MR) and explore methodological and …

The cost of reproduction is of fundamental importance in life-history evolution. However, our
understanding of its mechanistic basis has been limited by a lack of detailed functional …