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 …

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 …

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 …

Life‐history theory postulates that physiological traits, such as energy metabolism, can be
understood in terms of allocation trade‐offs between self‐maintenance and reproduction …

Tropical birds are relatively long-lived and produce few offspring, which develop slowly and
mature relatively late in life, the slow end of the life-history axis, whereas temperate birds lie …

Compared with temperate birds, tropical birds have low reproductive rates, slow
development as nestlings, and long lifespans. These “slow” life history traits are thought to …

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 …

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 …

The links between energy expenditure and ageing are different at different levels of enquiry.
When studies have examined the relationships between different species within a given …

Temperate birds tend to have a fast pace of life and short life spans with high reproductive
output, whereas tropical birds tend to have a slower pace of life, invest fewer resources in …