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early-life trade-offs

Scope: population ecology
Papers: 45 | Mentions: 53

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Definition

The concept that organisms face competing demands for limited resources during development that create trade-offs between different fitness components

Related Terms (20)

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flight-oogenesis syndromeallocation patternstrade-off between size and timingtrade-offs between life-history traitsstage-specific effectscostsdevelopmental trade-offstradeoffs between traitscost of induced defensesoffspring size-number trade-offs

Publications (49)

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Resource availability alters fitness trade-offs: implications for evolution in stressful environments

2020American Journal of Botanycentral
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Heritability of Maternal Investment in Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)

2020framework
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Ecological contexts of balancing selection in nature

2020primary focus
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Lifetime Fitness, Sex-Specific Life History, and the Maintenance of a Polyphenism

2019The American Naturalistframework
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Adaptation and diversification of bluebells <i>Mertensia</i> spp., Boranginaceae

2019primary focus
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Cumulative reproductive costs on current reproduction in a wild polytocous mammal

2018Ecology and Evolutioncentral
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Phenological shifts of native and invasive species under climate change: insights from the <i>Boechera Lythrum</i> model

2017Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesframework
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Phenological shifts of native and invasive species under climate change: insights from the <i>Boechera Lythrum</i> model

2017Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencestested
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Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability?

2017Ecological Modelingframework
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Is Compensatory Growth Costly?

2017central
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Is Compensatory Growth Costly?

2017framework
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Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee <i>Hoplitis fulgida</i>

2017framework
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Behavioral strategies of golden-mantled ground squirrels, <i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>

2016tested
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Effects of increased flight on the energetics and life history of the butterfly <i>Speyeria mormonia</i>

2015PLoS Onecentral
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Effects of increased flight on the energetics and life history of the butterfly <i>Speyeria mormonia</i>

2015PLoS Onetested
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Strong selection genome-wide enhances fitness tradeoffs across environments and episodes of selection

2014Evolutioncentral
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An Epichloe endophyte alters the ecology of Poa leptocoma.

2014central
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The causes and maintenance of personality in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

2014context
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Fitness costs of butterfly oviposition on a lethal non-native plant in a mixed native and non-native plant community

2013Oecologiameasured
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Costs of predator-induced phenotypic plasticity: A graphical model for predicting the contribution of non-consumptive and consumptive effects of predators on prey

2013Oecologiaframework
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Trade-offs associated with food availability and predator avoidance behavior of a stream mayfly

2011framework
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Fitness costs of the aphid endosymbiont, <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i>

2010central
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Functional importance of plumage badges as intraspecific signals in White-crowned sparrows (<i>Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha</i>).

2010context
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Understanding insect life histories and senescence through a resource allocation lens

2009Functional Ecologycentral
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Life-history consequences of vegetative damage in scarlet gilia, a monocarpic plant

2007Oikosframework
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A comparative study of the cost of alternative mayfly oviposition behaviors.

2007Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyframework
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Effects of larval energetic resources on life history and adult allocation patterns in a caddisfly (Trichoptera: Phryganeidae)

2007Ecological Entomologycentral
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The effects of altitude on the life history characteristics of yellow-bellied marmots <i>(Marmota flaviventris)</i>

2007tested
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Comparing predator-induced changes in stream insects with varying vulnerabilities to risk of predation

2004framework
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The effect of food quality and time constraints on caddisfly growth and development

2004central
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Lack of appropriate behavioral or development responses by mayfly larvae to trout predators

2003Ecologyframework
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Does living in streams with fish involve a cost of induced morphological defense?

2003Canadian Journal of Zoologycentral
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Does living in streams with fish involve a cost of induced morphological defense?

2003Canadian Journal of Zoologytested
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Sociality and individual fitness in yellow-bellied marmots: insights from a long-term study (1962-2001)

2003Oecologiaframework
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Caddisfly life histories along permanence gradients in high-altitude wetlands in Colorado (U.S.A.)

2003Freshwater Biologyframework
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Adaptive strategies and diversity in marmots

2003referenced
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Swarming and mating behavior of a mayfly <i>Baetis bicaudatus</i> suggest stabilizing selection for male body size

2002Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyframework
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Effect of larval body size on overwinter survival and emerging adult size in the burying beetle, <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>

2002Canadian Journal of Zoologyframework
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Variation in mayfly size at metamorphosis as a developmental response to risk of predation

2001Ecologyframework