Browsing by Subject "Life history"
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Aridity promotes bet hedging via delayed hatching: a case study with two temporary pond crustaceans along a latitudinal gradient
(Springer, 2017)Climate change does affect not only average rainfall and temperature but also their variation, which can reduce the predictability of suitable conditions for growth and reproduction. This situation is problematic for ... -
Chytrid pathogen (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in African amphibians: a continental analysis of occurrences and modeling of its potential distribution
(Herpetologists' League, 2020)The fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is implicated in global declines of amphibian populations and has been documented in African specimens originally collected as far back as the 1930s. Numerous recent ... -
Climate change jeopardizes the persistence of freshwater zooplankton by reducing both habitat suitability and demographic resilience
(BioMed Central, 2018)Background: Higher temperatures and increased environmental variability under climate change could jeopardize the persistence of species. Organisms that rely on short windows of rainfall to complete their life-cycles, ... -
Habitat uncertainty explains variation in offspring provisioning strategies in a temporary pond crustacean
(Springer, 2017)In temporally variable environments producing offspring with variable phenotypes can help parents to buffer against different future environmental conditions. Freshwater zooplankton can produce clutches with eggs of different ... -
Population-, sex- and individual level divergence in life-history and activity patterns in an annual killifish
(PeerJ, 2019)Variation in life-history strategies along a slow-fast continuum is largely governed by life-history trade-offs. The pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis (POLS) expands on this idea and suggests coevolution of these traits ... -
Squeezing out the last egg: annual fish increase reproductive efforts in response to a predation threat
(Wiley, 2018)Both constitutive and inducible antipredator strategies are ubiquitous in nature and serve to maximize fitness under a predation threat. Inducible strategies may be favored over constitutive defenses depending on their ...