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Body Size, Ecological Constraints, and the Evolution of Life-History Strategies

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Biologists, particularly physiologists, have long been aware of a strong tendency for life-history traits of organisms to scale with body size. However, this understanding has become only recently a concern of evolutionary ecologists.

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Barbault, R. (1988). Body Size, Ecological Constraints, and the Evolution of Life-History Strategies. In: Hecht, M.K., Wallace, B., Prance, G.T. (eds) Evolutionary Biology. Evolutionary Biology, vol 22. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0931-4_6

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