Mechanisms of Life History Evolution Stephen Testa With these new challenges

With these new challenges

The ability to anticipate the impacts of global environmental changes on natural resources is fundamental to designing appropriate and optimised adaptation and mitigation strategies

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Mechanisms of Life History Evolution Stephen Testa With these new challengesLife history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by analyzing the ecological factors that shape age specific schedules of growth, reproduction, and survival and by investigating the trade offs that constrain the evolution of these traits. Although life history theory has made enormous progress in explaining the diversity of life history strategies among species, it traditionally ignores the underlying proximate