BioConcepts

life history strategiesLebensgeschichtsstrategien (ger.)

• Evolutionary adaptations in a biological lineage involving the timing of reproduction, fecundity, longevity, etc. A grasshopper using its resources to make hundreds of fertilized eggs, each with a low probability of survival, represents a life history strategy different from a bird which uses its resources to produce a few offspring, each with a much greater chance of surviving. (Oxford Dict. of Genetics 2007)
  category life history

  1969

  Life History Strategies

  Gadgil, M. (1969). Life History Strategies. A Theoretical Investigation (PhD, Harvard University).

  1970

  We may […] set up the problem of life-history strategy as that of optimal allocation of resources among maintenance, growth and reproduction, just as Cody (1966) did as among clutch size, predator avoidance, and competitive ability.

  Gadgil, M. & Bossert, W.H. (1970). Life historical consequences of natural selection. Amer. Nat. 104, 1-24: 4.