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Evolutionary biology

the constraint that limited resources spent on one fitness component, such as current reproduction, reduce what is left for another, such as survival or growth.

In evolutionary biology, life history trade-off refers to the constraint that limited resources spent on one fitness component, such as current reproduction, reduce what is left for another, such as survival or growth. This meaning comes from Stearns (1989) in Functional Ecology.[1]

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References

Stearns, S. C. (1989). Trade-Offs in Life-History Evolution. Functional Ecology, 3(3), 259. https://doi.org/10.2307/2389364

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