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slow-fast continuum
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Definition
A commonly used framework to describe variation in life-history strategies across species, ranking organisms from slow to fast living based on combinations of late reproduction, low reproductive rates, and long lifespans versus early reproduction, high reproductive rates, and short lifespans
Related Terms (22)
ALHSslow-fast life history continuumtrade-offspace of lifelife history continuumenergy allocationresource allocationlife-history theorylife-history strategieslife strategy
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life-history traitsdemographic traitsfitness traitslife-history strategylife historieslife-history trade-offsgrowth-reproduction trade-offscost of reproduction theorylife history characteristicsfast-slow life history continuumr-selected speciestheory of allocation
Publications (35)
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Is early life adversity associated with adult stress in a wild rodent?
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Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change
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Evidence for a single, ancient origin of a genus-wide alternative life history strategy
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Individual life histories: neither slow nor fast, just diverse
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Individual life histories: neither slow nor fast, just diverse
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The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade-offs for an amphibian polyphenism
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Carry-over effects of larval food stress on adult energetics and life history in a nectar-feeding butterfly
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Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation
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Life history consequences of climate change in hibernating mammals: a review
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Causes and consequences of pre-hibernation body mass in golden-mantled ground squirrels (Callospermophilus lateralis)
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Temporal correlations among demographic parameters are ubiquitous but highly variable across species
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On the structure and significance of ecological niche breadth
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Demographic Consequences of Phenological Shifts in Response to Climate Change
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The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter
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Plant size and allocation to reproduction for plant demography
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Older mothers produce more successful daughters.
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Determining the Effects of Climate-Induced Range Shifts on Caddisfly Population Dynamics
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Effects of Life History Traits in the Mountain White-Crowned Sparrow During Incubation
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Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee <i>Hoplitis fulgida</i>
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Hibernation as a major determinant of life-history traits in marmots
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Yellow-bellied marmots do not compensate for a late start: the role of maternal investment in shaping life-history trajectories
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Litter sex composition affects life-history traits in yellow-bellied marmots
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Ecosystem engineering by beavers affects mayfly life histories
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Parental investment in burying beetles (<i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>): influence of seasonal timing and prior experience and efficacy of minimally guided instructional strategies in K-12 and undergraduate science classrooms: a meta-analysis
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Life history QTLs and natural selection on flowering time in <i></i>Boechera stricta<i></i>, a perennial relative of <i></i>Arabidopsis<i></i>
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Toward a synthetic understanding of the role of phenology in ecology and evolution
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Long-distance dispersal to the mining frontier in late 19th century Colorado
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Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic uncertainty.
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Indirect fitness benefits do not compensate for the loss of direct fitness in yellow-bellied marmots
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Diet and a developmental time constraint alter life-history trade-offs in a caddis fly (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae)
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The effects of altitude on the life history characteristics of yellow-bellied marmots <i>(Marmota flaviventris)</i>
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Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear: how life history and natural history traits affect disturbance tolerance in birds
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Effects of food addition on life history of yellow-bellied marmots
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Predator chemicals induce changes in mayfly life history traits: a whole-stream manipulation
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