Optimality theory in evolutionary biology Page 1 REVIEW ARTICLE Optimality theory in
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Life-history theory is concerned with strategic decisions over an organism's lifetime.
Evidence is accumulating about the way in which these decisions depend on the organism's …

The paradigm‐changing opportunities of biologging sensors for ecological research,
especially movement ecology, are vast, but the crucial questions of how best to match the …

The author shares some lessons learned from a lifetime of working with and thinking about
groups. Three types of groups are described, including the impact they have on the …

Landscape ecology deals with the effects of the spatial configuration of mosaics on a wide
variety of ecological phenomena. Because problems in many areas of conservation biology …

African wild dogs are 20–25 kg social carnivores whose major prey are ungulates ranging
from 15 to 200 kg. In the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania, wild dog pack size ranged from …

Site fidelity, the tendency to return to a previously occupied location, has been observed in
numerous species belonging to at least three phyla. In this paper I develop a general model …

Extensive observations of foraging female lions reveal that two group sizes maximize
foraging success during the season of prey scarcity: one female and five or six females …

Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk
of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a …

Many species of animals face the continual problem of balancing the trade-off between
reducing predation risks and maintaining or increasing their reproductive fitness. The terms …