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Adaptive Intrinsic Growth Rates: An Integration Across Taxa
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The evolution of intrinsic growth rate has received less attention than other life history traits, and has been studied differently in plants, homoiotherms, and poikilotherms. The benefits of rapid growth are obvious, so the problems is to explain the costs and tradeoffs that cause organisms to grow below their physiological maximum. Four prevailing themes emerge from the literature: (1) slow growth is adaptive for dealing with nutrient stress, (2) the tradeoff between growth rate and development limits growth in species that require mature function early in life, (3) rapid growth evolves when a minimum size must be reached quickly, such as for sexual maturation or overwintering, and (4) rapid growth may evolve to compensate for slowed growth owing to environmental conditions. Evidence for each of these themes is detailed for plants, homoiotherms, and poikilotherms. In addition, empirical evidence is reviewed for costs of rapid growth, including increased fluctuating asymmetry, reduced immune capacity, and reduced ability to respond to environmental stress. L
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- Authors
- Arendt, J. D.
- Venue
- The Quarterly Review of Biology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1997-06
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 149-177
- ISSN
- 0033-5770 (ISSN-L)
- 1539-7718
- OpenAlex
- W2147505351
- Cited by
- 1,071
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 19.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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