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References from Density dependent environments can select for extremes of body size. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
Fish body sizes change with temperature but not all species shrink with warming
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Landscape and fragment size effects on reproductive success of forest-breeding birds in ontario
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Unresolved reference
2001 · External reference
Selection in Populations with Overlapping Generations. V. Natural Selection and Life Histories
10.1086/282832 · 1973 · External reference
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10.1017/cbo9780511525711 · 1994 · External reference
A trade-off-invariant life-history rule for optimal offspring size
10.1038/376418a0 · 1995 · External reference
Evolution of size–dependent flowering in a variable environment: construction and analysis of a stochastic integral projection model
10.1098/rspb.2003.2597 · 2004 · External reference
The ‘island rule’ in birds: medium body size and its ecological explanation
10.1098/rspb.2002.2024 · 2002 · External reference
Estimating individual contributions to population growth: evolutionary fitness in ecological time
10.1098/rspb.2005.3357 · 2005 · External reference
Integral projections models, their construction and use in posing hypotheses in ecology
10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00035.x · 2012 · External reference
10.24072/pcjournal.4 · 2021 · Admitted local publication
Modeling Adaptive and Nonadaptive Responses of Populations to Environmental Change
10.1086/692542 · 2017 · External reference
Modeling Effects of Environmental Change on Wolf Population Dynamics, Trait Evolution, and Life History
10.1126/science.1209441 · 2011 · External reference
Using evolutionary demography to link life history theory, quantitative genetics and population ecology
10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01734.x · 2010 · External reference
Evolution of reproductive life histories in island birds worldwide
10.1098/rspb.2011.1785 · 2012 · External reference
Von Bertalanffy's Growth Equation Should Not Be Used to Model Age and Size at Maturity
10.1086/285995 · 1997 · External reference
Shortest recorded vertebrate lifespan found in a coral reef fish
10.1016/j.cub.2005.04.016 · 2005 · External reference
The adaptive dynamics of function-valued traits
10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.12.002 · 2006 · External reference
10.1007/978-3-319-28893-2
10.1007/978-3-319-28893-2 · 2016 · External reference
Lifetime growth in wild meerkats: incorporating life history and environmental factors into a standard growth model
10.1007/s00442-011-2192-9 · 2012 · External reference
10.5962/bhl.title.27468
10.5962/bhl.title.27468 · 1930 · External reference
Variation in growth form and precocity at birth in eutherian mammals
10.1098/rspb.1997.0120 · 1997 · External reference
Exploring causal pathways in demographic parameter variation: path analysis of mark-recapture data
10.1111/j.2041-210x.2011.00150.x · 2012 · External reference
Physiological constraints on marine mammal body size
10.1073/pnas.1804077115 · 2018 · External reference
Formal Darwinism, the individual–as–maximizing–agent analogy and bet–hedging
10.1098/rspb.1999.0708 · 1999 · External reference
Selection pressures on vital rates in density–dependent populations
10.1098/rspb.1997.0043 · 1997 · External reference
Impact of Infectious Diseases on Wild Animal Populations: a Review
10.1017/cbo9780511629396.002 · 1995 · External reference
The evolution of large size: how does Cope's Rule work?
10.1016/j.tree.2004.10.012 · 2005 · External reference
Measuring selective constraint on fertility in human life histories
10.1073/pnas.1422037112 · 2015 · External reference
Measuring selective constraint on fertility in human life histories
10.1073/pnas.1422037112 · 2015 · External reference
Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast-slow life-history continuum
10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01187.x · 2008 · External reference
Life‐history strategy varies with the strength of competition in a food‐limited ungulate population
10.1111/ele.13470 · 2020 · External reference
The Strength of Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations
10.1086/319193 · 2001 · External reference
10.1017/cbo9780511805400
10.1017/cbo9780511805400 · 2009 · External reference
Interspecific Allometries Are by-Products of Body Size Optimization
10.1086/285994 · 1997 · External reference
Optimal allocation of resources to growth and reproduction: Implications for age and size at maturity
10.1016/0169-5347(92)90192-e · 1992 · External reference
Coevolution of body size and metabolic rate in vertebrates: a life‐history perspective
10.1111/brv.12615 · 2020 · External reference
Investigating the Dynamics of Elk Population Size and Body Mass in a Seasonal Environment Using a Mechanistic Integral Projection Model
10.1086/708723 · 2020 · External reference
An evolutionary maximum principle for density-dependent population dynamics in a fluctuating environment
10.1098/rstb.2009.0017 · 2009 · External reference
Evolution of stochastic demography with life history tradeoffs in density-dependent age-structured populations
10.1073/pnas.1710679114 · 2017 · External reference
Optimal Life Histories Under Age-Specific Predation
10.1086/283488 · 1979 · External reference
Body size evolution in insular vertebrates: generality of the island rule
10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01314.x · 2005 · External reference
Some generalized theorems of natural selection
10.1073/pnas.48.11.1893 · 1962 · External reference
The contribution of artificial nest experiments to understanding avian reproductive success: a review of methods and conclusions
10.1111/j.1474-919x.1996.tb04342.x · 1996 · External reference
Estimation of Individual Fitness from Life-History Data
10.1086/285839 · 1996 · External reference
On the Ecological Significance of Bergmann's Rule
10.2307/1936032 · 1971 · External reference
Explaining stasis: microevolutionary studies in natural populations
10.1023/a:1013391806317 · 2001 · External reference
Evolutionary Optimisation Models and Matrix Games in the Unified Perspective of Adaptive Dynamics
10.1556/select.2.2001.1-2.14 · 2002 · External reference
Evolution of flowering decisions in a stochastic, density-dependent environment
10.1073/pnas.0800777105 · 2008 · External reference
On Evolutionarily Stable Life Histories, Optimization and the Need to Be Specific about Density Dependence
10.2307/3545651 · 1995 · External reference
Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus)
10.1126/science.aaf1703 · 2016 · External reference
Senescence in natural populations of animals: Widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology
10.1016/j.arr.2012.07.004 · 2013 · External reference
The Dynamics of Phenotypic Change and the Shrinking Sheep of St. Kilda
10.1126/science.1173668 · 2009 · External reference
Optimal Egg Size and Clutch Size: Effects of Environment and Maternal Phenotype
10.1086/284589 · 1986 · External reference
Demographic determinants of the phenotypic mother–offspring correlation
10.1002/ecm.1479 · 2021 · External reference
The island rule in large mammals: paleontology meets ecology
10.1111/j.0014-3820.2006.tb00516.x · 2006 · External reference
Experimentally induced life-history evolution in a natural population
10.1038/346357a0 · 1990 · External reference
The impact of predation on life history evolution in trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
10.1111/j.1558-5646.1982.tb05021.x · 1982 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1993 · External reference
Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism
10.1111/j.1469-185x.2010.00137.x · 2011 · External reference
The effect of insularity on avian growth rates and implications for insular body size evolution
10.1098/rspb.2018.1967 · 2019 · External reference
The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
10.1111/j.0269-8463.2004.00856.x · 2004 · External reference
Factors limiting woodland caribou populations and their interrelationships with wolves and moose in southeastern British Columbia
10.1139/z92-206 · 1992 · External reference
Mechanistic description of population dynamics using dynamic energy budget theory incorporated into integral projection models
10.1111/2041-210x.12675 · 2017 · External reference
The Optimal Balance between Size and Number of Offspring
10.1086/282929 · 1974 · External reference
The Evolution of Life History Traits: A Critique of the Theory and a Review of the Data
10.1146/annurev.es.08.110177.001045 · 1977 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1992 · External reference
Trading stages: Life expectancies in structured populations
10.1016/j.exger.2012.05.015 · 2012 · External reference
An analysis of life history evolution in terms of the density-dependent Lefkovitch matrix model
10.1016/0025-5564(92)90091-a · 1992 · External reference
Theorems on the invasion process in stage-structured populations with density-dependent dynamics
10.1007/s002850050111 · 1998 · External reference
Causes of sex-biased adult survival in ungulates: sexual size dimorphism, mating tactic or environment harshness?
10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12073.x · 2003 · External reference
Do Eco-Evo Feedbacks Help Us Understand Nature? Answers From Studies of the Trinidadian Guppy
10.1016/b978-0-12-801374-8.00001-3 · 2014 · External reference
From stochastic environments to life histories and back
10.1098/rstb.2009.0021 · 2009 · External reference
10.1007/978-3-642-51652-8
10.1007/978-3-642-51652-8 · 1990 · External reference
Population Regulation: A Synthetic View
10.2307/3546876 · 1999 · External reference
The world’s smallest vertebrate, Schindleria brevipinguis, a new paedomorphic species in the family Schindleriidae (Perciformes: Gobioidei)
10.3853/j.0067-1975.56.2004.1429 · 2004 · External reference
A General Model for the Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology
10.1126/science.276.5309.122 · 1997 · External reference
The role of food, weather and climate in limiting the abundance of animals
10.1111/j.1469-185x.2008.00041.x · 2008 · External reference
Offspring Size and Number: A Life History Model Linking Effort Per Offspring and Total Effort
10.1086/284667 · 1987 · External reference
Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator–prey system
10.1038/nature01767 · 2003 · External reference