Bio 608 Readings

Christopher C. Smith, Stephen D. Fretwell 1974. The Optimal Balance between Size and Number of Offspring. American Naturalist, Vol. 108, No. 962. (Jul. - Aug., 1974), pp. 499-506. (link)

George C. Williams 1976. Natural Selection, the Costs of Reproduction, and a Refinement of Lack's Principle (in Letters to the Editors). American Naturalist, Vol. 100, No. 916. (Nov. - Dec., 1966), pp. 687-690. (link)

Earl E. Werner, James F. Gilliam 1984. The Ontogenetic Niche and Species Interactions in Size-Structured Populations. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Vol. 15. (1984), pp. 393-425. (link)

Joe Repka, Mart R. Gross 1995. The evolutionarily stable strategy under individual condition and tactic frequency. Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 176, No. 1, Sep 1995, pp. 27-31 (link) 

Mart R. Gross, Joe Repka 1998. Stability with Inheritance in the Conditional Strategy. Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 192, No. 4, Jun 1998, pp. 445-453 (link)

Marc Mangel; Colin W. Clark 1986. Towards a Unified Foraging Theory. Ecology 67: 1127-1138. (JSOTRlink)

John M. McNamara; Alasdair I. Houston 1986. The Common Currency for Behavioral Decisions. American Naturalist 127: 358-378. (JSTORlink)

Stearns, SC 1976. Life-History Tactics: A Review of the Ideas. The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 51, No. 1. (Mar., 1976), pp. 3-47. (JSTORlink)