Tropical and temperate birds provide a unique system to examine mechanistic
consequences of life-history trade-offs at opposing ends of the pace-of-life spectrum; tropical …

Animal life-history traits fall within limited ecological space with animals that have high
reproductive rates having short lives, a continuum referred to as a “slow-fast” life-history axis …

For vertebrates, body mass underlies much of the variation in metabolism, but among
animals of the same body mass, metabolism varies six-fold. Understanding how natural …

The rates at which birds use energy may have profound effects on fitness, thereby
influencing physiology, behavior, ecology and evolution. Comparisons of standardized …

In general, tropical birds have a “slow pace of life,” lower rates of whole-animal metabolism
and higher survival rates, than temperate species. A fundamental challenge facing …

Variation in resting metabolic rate is strongly correlated with differences in body weight
among birds. The lowest taxonomic level at which most of the variance in resting metabolic …

Attributes of an animal's life history, such as reproductive rate or longevity, typically fall along
a 'slow–fast'continuum. Animals at the fast end of this continuum, such as temperate birds …

The flexible phenotypes of birds and mammals often appear to represent adjustments to
alleviate some energetic bottleneck or another. By increasing the size of the organs involved …

Survival rates vary dramatically among species and predictably across latitudes, but causes
of this variation are unclear. The rate‐of‐living hypothesis posits that physiological damage …

The life‐history theory of evolution posits that organisms are maximized for reproductive
success through the processes of natural selection. Though believed to impact nearly every …