Paper
S.D. Mylius & O. Diekmann, 1995. Oikos 74 (2): 218-224
Concentrating on monomorphic populations in demographic steady state, we give three different conditions under which the evolutionarily stable life-history strategy can be characterized as the life-history strategy at which a relatively simple function is maximal. Depending on the way density dependence acts, this function, or fitness measure, can be the life-time production of offspring, the population growth rate, or another quantity from a large range of possible optimization criteria. We illustrate this by examining the optimal age at maturity for a hypothetical example organism. All of this demonstrates that, when studying the evolutionary aspects of life-history characteristics, one cannot escape the task of specifying how density dependence limits population growth.
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