10 – Life History Evolution in Metapopulations

摘要: Publisher Summary Life history theory deals with the evolution of those traits that shape an organism's age schedules birth and death. Many biological potentially affect patterns reproduction mortality throughout life cycle. Life therefore constitute a loosely defined set morphological, developmental, or behavioral characteristics. Despite this diversity traits, by early 1990s, had grown successfully into very productive field organized around few central questions strong unifying theoretical background, grounded in both optimization principles quantitative genetics. Then, realm most studies was single, large, undisturbed, spatially homogeneous population. This chapter reviews empirical studies, published since 1997, have addressed metapopulation context.