Life History

Recent Papers

NATURAL HISTORY NOTE

Experimental Amelioration of Harsh Weather Speeds Growth and Development in a Tropical Montane Songbird

Adam E. Mitchell, Jordan Boersma, Anthonio Anthony, Kanehiro Kitayama, and Thomas E. Martin

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Mitchell.html

A Stochastic Model for Predicting Age and Mass at Maturity of Insects

Geoffrey Legault and Joel G. Kingsolver

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Legault.html

Species Differences in Phenology Shape Coexistence

Christopher Blackford, Rachel M. Germain, and Benjamin Gilbert

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Blackford.html

Parental Age Effects and the Evolution of Senescence

Patrick M. Barks and Robert A. Laird

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Barks.html

Age-Related Brood Parasitism and Egg Rejection in Magpie Hosts

Juan Gabriel Martínez, Mercedes Molina-Morales, Marta Precioso, and Jesús Miguel Avilés

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Martinez.html

Life-History Plasticity and Water-Use Trade-Offs Associated with Drought Resistance in a Clade of California Jewelflowers

Ian S. Pearse, Jessica M. Aguilar, and Sharon Y. Strauss

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Pearse.html

SYNTHESIS

Context Dependence of Local Adaptation to Abiotic and Biotic Environments: A Quantitative and Qualitative Synthesis

Ryan D. Briscoe Runquist, Amanda J. Gorton, Jeremy B. Yoder, Nicholas J. Deacon, Jake J. Grossman, Shan Kothari, Marta P. Lyons, Seema N. Sheth, Peter Tiffin, and David A. Moeller

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Briscoe-Runquist.html

NOTE

The Effects of Body Mass on Immune Cell Concentrations of Mammals

Cynthia J. Downs, Ned A. Dochtermann, Ray Ball, Kirk C. Klasing, and Lynn B. Martin

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Downs.html

Fecundity-Longevity Trade-Off, Vertical Transmission, and Evolution of Virulence in Sterilizing Pathogens

Eva Janoušková and Luděk Berec

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Comparing Life Histories across Taxonomic Groups in Multiple Dimensions: How Mammal-Like Are Insects?

Adam T. Bakewell, Katie E. Davis, Robert P. Freckleton, Nick J. B. Isaac, and Peter J. Mayhew

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