Life History

Recent Papers

Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks Predict the Time Course of Rapid Life-History Evolution

David N. Reznick, Ronald D. Bassar, Corey A. Handelsman, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Jeff Arendt, Tim Coulson, Tomos Potter, Emily W. Ruell, Julián Torres-Dowdall, Paul Bentzen, and Joseph Travis

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Reznick.html

A Spatial Perspective on the Phenological Distribution of the Spring Woodland Caterpillar Peak

Jack D. Shutt, Malcolm D. Burgess, and Albert B. Phillimore

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Shutt.html

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Seed Masting Causes Fluctuations in Optimum Litter Size and Lag Load in a Seed Predator

Andrew G. McAdam, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, and Jeffrey E. Lane

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugMcAdam.html

Plastic Senescence in the Honey Bee and the Disposable Soma Theory

Jack da Silva

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-da-Silva.html

Note, Open Access

Generation Time Measures the Trade-Off between Survival and Reproduction in a Life Cycle

Stefano Giaimo and Arne Traulsen

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugGiaimo.html

Note

The Equivocal Mean Age of Parents in a Cohort

François Bienvenu

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBienvenu.html

Environmental Veto Synchronizes Mast Seeding in Four Contrasting Tree Species

Michał Bogdziewicz, Magdalena Żywiec, Josep M. Espelta, Marcos Fernández-Martinez, Rafael Calama, Mateusz Ledwoń, Eliot McIntire, and Elizabeth E. Crone

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBogdziewicz.html

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

Alycia C. R. Lackey, Michael P. Moore, Jacqueline Doyle, Nicole Gerlanc, Ashley Hagan, Morgan Geile, Chris Eden, and Howard H. Whiteman

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugLackey.html

Open Access, Special Feature on Maladaptation

Maladaptive Shifts in Life History in a Changing Environment

Olivier Cotto, Linnea Sandell, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Ophélie Ronce

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugCotto.html

Synthesis

Dormancy in Metacommunities

Nathan I. Wisnoski, Mathew A. Leibold, and Jay T. Lennon

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugWisnoski.html

Higher Nest Predation Favors Rapid Fledging at the Cost of Plumage Quality in Nestling Birds

Lea M. Callan, Frank A. La Sorte, Thomas E. Martin, and Vanya G. Rohwer

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayCallan.html

Condition-Dependent Begging Elicits Increased Parental Investment in a Wild Bird Population

E. Keith Bowers, Jonathan B. Jenkins, Alexander J. Mueller, Kelly D. Miller, Charles F. Thompson, and Scott K. Sakaluk

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayBowers.html

Two-Year Bee, or Not Two-Year Bee? How Voltinism Is Affected by Temperature and Season Length in a High-Elevation Solitary Bee

Jessica R. K. Forrest, Regan Cross, and Paul J. CaraDonna

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprForrest.html

Age-Specific Offspring Mortality Economically Tracks Food Abundance in a Piscivorous Seabird

Oscar Vedder, He Zhang, Andreas Dänhardt, and Sandra Bouwhuis

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprVedder.html

Note (an F1000 recommendation as Exceptional)

Shifting Vital Rate Correlations Alter Predicted Population Responses to Increasingly Variable Environments

David T. Iles, Robert F. Rockwell, and David N. Koons

Queen Longevity and Fecundity Affect Conflict with Workers over Resource Inheritance in a Social Insect

Edward J. Almond, Timothy J. Huggins, Liam P. Crowther, Joel D. Parker, and Andrew F. G. Bourke

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebAlmond.html

Genetic Quality Affects the Rate of Male and Female Reproductive Aging Differently in Drosophila melanogaster

Martin Brengdahl, Christopher M. Kimber, Jack Maguire-Baxter, Antonino Malacrinò, and Urban Friberg

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecBrengdahl.html

Female Life-History Trade-Offs and the Maintenance of Genetic Variation in Drosophila melanogaster

Devin Arbuthnott

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctArbuthnott.html

Early and Adult Social Environments Shape Sex-Specific Actuarial Senescence Patterns in a Cooperative Breeder

Vérane Berger, Jean-François Lemaître, Dominique Allainé, Jean-Michel Gaillard, and Aurélie Cohas

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctVBerger.html

The Energetic Cost of Reproduction and Its Effect on Optimal Life-History Strategies

Asta Audzijonyte and Shane A. Richards

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctAudzijonyte.html

Note
Generation Time in Structured Populations
Stephen P. Ellner

Evolution of Complex Asexual Reproductive Strategies in Jellyfish
Nicolas Azaña Schnedler-Meyer, Simone Pigolotti, and Patrizio Mariani

Collapse, Tipping Points, and Spatial Demographic Structure Arising from the Adopted Migrant Life History
Luke A. Rogers, Anne K. Salomon, Brendan Connors, and Martin Krkošek
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyRogers.html

Life-History Multistability Caused by Size-Dependent Mortality
Barbara Taborsky, Mikko Heino, and Ulf Dieckmann

Note
Chronological and Biological Age Predict Seasonal Reproductive Timing: An Investigation of Clutch Initiation and Telomeres in Birds of Known Age
Carolyn M. Bauer, Jessica L. Graham, Mikus Abolins-Abols, Britt J. Heidinger, Ellen D. Ketterson, and Timothy J. Greives
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneBauer.html

Morph-Specific Patterns of Reproductive Senescence: Connections to Discrete Reproductive Strategies
Andrea S. Grunst, Melissa L. Grunst, Vince A. Formica, Marisa L. Korody, Adam M. Betuel, Margarida Barcelo-Serra, Sarah Ford, Rusty A. Gonser, and Elaina M. Tuttle
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneGrunst.html

How Life History Shapes Optimal Patterns of Senescence: Implications from Individuals to Societies
Natalie J. Lemanski and Nina H. Fefferman

Host Traits Drive Viral Life Histories across Phytoplankton Viruses
Kyle F. Edwards and Grieg F. Steward

Phylo-Allometric Analyses Showcase the Interplay between Life-History Patterns and Phenotypic Convergence in Cleaner Wrasses
Vikram B. Baliga and Rita S. Mehta

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayBaliga.html

Open Access
The Geometry of Nutrient Space–Based Life-History Trade-Offs: Sex-Specific Effects of Macronutrient Intake on the Trade-Off between Encapsulation Ability and Reproductive Effort in Decorated Crickets
James Rapkin, Kim Jensen, C. Ruth Archer, Clarissa M. House, Scott K. Sakaluk, Enrique del Castillo, and John Hunt
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprRapkin.html

Pluck or Luck: Does Trait Variation or Chance Drive Variation in Lifetime Reproductive Success?
Robin E. Snyder and Stephen P. Ellner
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprSnyder.html

Natural History Note
Extreme Climate-Induced Life-History Plasticity in an Amphibian
François S. Becker, Krystal A. Tolley, G. John Measey, and Res Altwegg
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebBecker.html

Life-History Traits Evolved Jointly with Climatic Niche and Disturbance Regime in the Genus Leucadendron (Proteaceae)
Jeanne Tonnabel, Frank M. Schurr, Florian Boucher, Wilfried Thuiller, Julien Renaud, Emmanuel J. P. Douzery, and Ophélie Ronce