life history
Life-history traits in an evergreen Mediterranean oak respond differentially to previous experimental environments
... We considered two levels of analyses, the individual and the plot (aggregates of interacting individuals). Because observational approaches often cannot demonstrate causal relationships as they do not control for ...
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Beware of primate life history data: a plea for data standards and a repository.
... Life history variables such as the age at first reproduction and the interval between consecutive births are measures of investment in growth and reproduction in a particular population or ...such ...
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Eye size at birth in prosimian primates: life history correlates and growth patterns.
... Methodology/Principal Findings: We measured eye and bony orbit size in perinatal prosimian primates (17 strepsirrhine taxa and Tarsius syrichta) to infer the extent of prenatal as compared to postnatal eye growth. In ...
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Long bone histology and growth patterns in ankylosaurs: implications for life history and evolution.
... The ankylosaurs are one of the major dinosaur groups and are characterized by unique body armor. Previous studies on other dinosaur taxa have revealed growth patterns, life history and evolutionary ...
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Connectivity patterns and early life history of the black-faced blenny Tripterygion delaisi (Cadenat and Blache, 1970)
... early life history traits (ELHTs) such as, size and time at hatching (Contreras et ...early life history information such as growth patterns, derived from both the larval and juvenile stages ...
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Intrapopulation genome size variation in D. melanogaster reflects life history variation and plasticity.
... other life history traits in a manner that is not completely understood [28– ...evolutionary history of the species is well studied at the phenotypic and genomic level, and interspecific observations ...
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Life History Consequences of the Facultative Expression of a Dispersal Life Stage in the Phoretic Bulb Mite (Rhizoglyphus robini).
... and life history traits in the bulb mite (Rhizoglyphus robini, Acaridae), a species that disperses by ...key life-history traits; size at maturity and, in females, lifetime reproductive ...
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Life history and demographic drivers of reservoir competence for three tick-borne zoonotic pathogens.
... Life history theory suggests that species of animals and plants that invest heavily in growth and reproduction are subject to trade- offs that reduce allocation to self-maintenance, including immune defense ...
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Does thermal variability experienced at the egg stage influence life history traits across life cycle stages in a small invertebrate?
... across life cycle stages but this remains to be tested particularly within the context of realistic temperature fluctuations encountered in ...and life history traits across developmental ...
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Context-dependent effects of ranaviral infection on northern leopard frog life history traits.
... host life-history traits, but the magnitude of these effects is often strongly context- ...certain life-history traits, namely survival, growth rate, developmental stage and number of days ...
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Scorpions and life-history strategies: from evolutionary dynamics toward the scorpionism problem
... The parthenogenetic pattern observed in scorpions cor- responds in all cases to the model defined by Vandel [67] as ‘geographic parthenogenesis’, and can be tentatively ex- plained in terms of the ...
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Syndromes or flexibility: behavior during a life history transition of a coral reef fish.
... complex life cycles that undergo life history ...their life cycle, reef fishes typically experience high mortality [26], with rates within the first 48 hours averaging 57% [26,27] but can be ...
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Early life history of deep-water gorgonian corals may limit their abundance.
... The influence of post-recruitment processes on the local abundance of adult colonies is unknown in deep-water gorgonian corals. In our study, structural complexity influenced recruitment of P. resedaeformis, as larvae ...
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Life History Traits Reflect Changes in Mediterranean Butterfly Communities Due to Forest Encroachment.
... The prevailingly European species colonising Scrub forest sites form few generations per year, overwinter in early stages, and, counter-intuitively, fly in spring; the prevailingly Eurosiberian species colonising Open ...
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Life History Strategy and Disordered Eating Behavior
... reproductive life history ...from Life History Theory, which is a mid-level theory from evolutionary biology that describes the allocation of limited bioenergetic and material resources to the ...
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Life-history trait database of European reptile species
... While life history data for many species, especially plants, are available online, life history traits of European reptiles are available only widely scattered in diferent languages and ...
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Life History Strategy and Young Adult Substance Use
... Parent fast LHS did have direct effects on the use of specific substances. In particular, parent fast LHS had small negative effects on young adult alcohol use and small positive effects on young adult smoking. These ...
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Life History Strategy and the HEXACO Personality Dimensions
... Arizona Life History Battery (ALHB: Figueredo, 2007) is a 199-item self- report instrument consisting of eight scales drawn from various original sources (Barrera, Sandler, and Ramsay, 1981; Brennan, Clark, ...
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Birth date predicts alternative life-history pathways in a fish with sequential reproductive tactics
... three life-history pathways were observed (Table 1): (i) the nest-holder pathway, which consisted of the larger individuals that expressed the nest- holder tactic ...
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Dynamic Model for Life History of Scyphozoa.
... two-state life history model governed by ODEs is formulated to elucidate the population dynamics of jellyfish and to illuminate the triggering mechanism of its ...
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