Life histories are not just fast or slow

I Stott, R Salguero-Gómez, OR Jones… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Life history strategies, which combine schedules of survival, development, and reproduction,
shape how natural selection acts on species' heritable traits and organismal fitness …

Rethinking the fast-slow continuum of individual differences

M Del Giudice - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
The idea that individual differences in behavior and physiology can be partly understood by
linking them to a fast-slow continuum of life history strategies has become popular in the …

Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems

M Schleuning, D García, JA Tobias - Functional Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits and associated trait‐based concepts have driven rapid innovation in
ecology over recent years, with most progress based on insights from plants. However …

Maturation in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, Salmonidae): a synthesis of ecological, genetic, and molecular processes

KB Mobley, T Aykanat, Y Czorlich, A House… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2021 - Springer
Over the past decades, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, Salmonidae) has emerged as a model
system for sexual maturation research, owing to the high diversity of life history strategies …

Convergent evolution toward a slow pace of life predisposes insular endotherms to anthropogenic extinctions

Y **ong, R Rozzi, Y Zhang, L Fan, J Zhao, D Li… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Island vertebrates have evolved a number of morphological, physiological, and life history
characteristics that set them apart from their mainland relatives. However, to date, the …

The traits of “trait ecologists”: An analysis of the use of trait and functional trait terminology

SK Dawson, CP Carmona… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Trait and functional trait approaches have revolutionized ecology improving our
understanding of community assembly, species coexistence, and biodiversity loss. Focusing …

Life-history theory in psychology and evolutionary biology: one research programme or two?

D Nettle, WE Frankenhuis - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The term 'life-history theory'(LHT) is increasingly often invoked in psychology, as a
framework for integrating understanding of psychological traits into a broader evolutionary …

Correlated evolution of social organization and lifespan in mammals

P Zhu, W Liu, X Zhang, M Li, G Liu, Y Yu, Z Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Discerning the relationship between sociality and longevity would permit a deeper
understanding of how animal life history evolved. Here, we perform a phylogenetic …

Covariation among reproductive traits in flowering plants shapes their interactions with pollinators

J B. Lanuza, R Rader, J Stavert, LK Kendall… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, plants display enormous variation in life‐history strategies and trait combinations.
However, evidence suggests that evolutionary and physiological constraints limit the …

Integrating behavior in life-history theory: allocation versus acquisition?

KL Laskowski, M Moiron, PT Niemelä - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Central theories explaining the maintenance of individual differences in behavior build on
the assumption that behavior mediates life-history trade-offs between current and future …