Overview
Syllabus
Intro
A field of science comes of age when it is able to predict
Life history traits: key events in the life of an organism
Life history traits underpin what's possible
Life history trait trade-offs determine what's not possible
Life history theory is taxonomically handicapped
What determines the repertoire of life history strategies?
Predictive power of the framework
Mammal demographic responses to climate drivers are complex
Tropical life history trait diversity is greater
Forecast of life history strategies in temporally autocorrelated environments
Life history traits predict responses to extreme climatic events
A framework to classify life history strategies...
Using insights from life history theory to forecast global population responses to climate change
A third axis: reproductive senescence
Taught by
EvoEcoSeminars