The potential for adaptive evolution to enable species persistence under a changing climate
is one of the most important questions for understanding impacts of future climate change …

Hormones play key roles in the regulation of animal and plant life histories, particularly in the
timing of transitions between prematurational stages and in the scheduling of reproduction …

This book introduces life history evolution to postgraduate students just beginning their
research in population biology, ecology, or evolutionary biology. It discusses major …

LIFE-HISTORY theory predicts that reduced adult survival will select for earlier maturation
and increased reproductive effort; conversely, reduced juvenile survival will select the …

To be the best in all possible worlds is not biologically possible; to be well adapted to even
one world requires compromise. Theoretical studies of life history evolution embody such …

The theory of r‐and K‐selection was one of the first predictive models for life‐history
evolution. It helped to galvanize the empirical field of comparative life‐history and dominated …

Species interactions drive evolution while evolution shapes these interactions. The resulting
eco-evolutionary dynamics and their repeatability depend on how adaptive mutations …

There is now a good theoretical understanding of life history evolution, and detailed explicit
optimality models have been constructed. These present a challenge for empirical work …

Prior research has demonstrated a strong association between the species of predators that
co-occur with guppies and the evolution of guppy life histories. The evolution of these …

A simple agar plating method for the description of microbial communities is described. This
method is based on the quantification of the numbers of bacterial colonies in 6–7 age-based …