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Published on: May 18, 2022
What is essential for life and life history research?
Huijing Lu1, Zhou Jin2, Anting Yang2
1The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China huijing.lu@polyu.edu.hk https://www.polyu.edu.hk/apss/.
Abstract:
The featured article introduces a much-needed theoretical framework for developing a dual-process model of life history calibration. This model accounts for the counterbalancing effects of individual energetic stresses and extrinsic mortality threats of the environment. This framework also reinstates resource availability - a key determinant of energetic conditions - into life history research, resolving its previous exclusion due to similar countervailing influences relative to extrinsic mortality threats.
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