▪ 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 …

This review reports on the processes associated with costs of reproduction, including some
theoretical considerations, definitions and methodological aspects, followed by a list of the …

Bright colors, enlarged fins, feather plumes, song, horns, antlers, and tusks are often highly
sex dimorphic. Why have males in many animals evolved more conspicuous ornaments …

A definitive guide to the depth and breadth of the ecological sciences, revised and updated
The revised and updated fifth edition of Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems–now in full …

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 …

Brian Charlesworth This book represents the first attempt to review the subject of age-
structured populations. The topics discussed include demography and ecological dynamics …

The Ache, whose life history the authors recounts, are a small indigenous population of
hunters and gatherers living in the neotropical rainforest of eastern Paraguay. This is part …

This chapter provides an overview of life history theory (LHT). LHT conceptualizes specific
allocation tradeoffs in terms of three broad, fundamental trade‐offs: the present‐future …

Food limitation is generally thought to underlie much of the variation in life history traits of
birds. I examined variation and covariation of life history traits of 123 North American …

Stephen C. Steams ariation, the fuel that feeds evolutionary change, origi-nates at the levels
of both the genotype and the phenotype. Geneti-cally identical organisms reared under …