The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis specifies that closely related species or
populations experiencing different ecological conditions should differ in a suite of metabolic …

According to life‐history theory, growth rates are subject to strong directional selection due
to reproductive and survival advantages associated with large adult body size. Yet, growth is …

Destruction of habitat is the major cause for loss of biodiversity including variation in life
history and habitat ecology. Each species and population adapts to its environment …

Compensatory growth (CG) is a phase of accelerated growth when favourable conditions
are restored after a period of growth depression. CG reduces variance in size by causing …

The interest in fishing‐induced life‐history evolution has been growing in the last decade, in
part because of the increasing number of studies suggesting evolutionary changes in life …

Tradeoffs have played a prominent role in the development of theories describing the
evolution of reaction norms. Different classes of tradeoffs are known to constrain the …

Patterns of phenotypic change across environmental gradients (eg, latitude, altitude) have
long captivated the interest of evolutionary ecologists. The pattern and magnitude of …

Summary 1 Nearly all fish evade predation strikes by rapidly accelerating out of the strike
path, a behaviour called the fast‐start evasion response. The many studies investigating …

Many collapsed fish populations have failed to recover after a decade or more with little
fishing. This may reflect evolutionary change in response to the highly selective mortality …

Any animal whose form or behavior facilitates the avoidance of predators or escape when
attacked by predators will have a greater probability of surviving to breed and therefore …