some graphs:
http://www.umsl.edu/~biology/Bio220/LifehistLecture/lifehistory.html
detailed history of life history
http://mason.gmu.edu/~lrockwoo/lifehistoiess02.htm
for parasite/global warming - invert zoo
http://www.ciesin.org/docs/001-364/001-364.html
Lectures with examples
http://www.utm.edu/~rirwin/441LifeHistoryTheory.htm
http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BIO48/17.Life.Histories.HTML
http://fig.cox.miami.edu/~schultz/fall02/bil235/6.html
Exercises
1.Salmon present an example of species that delay reproductive effort,
but are
semelparous. Delay of reproductive effort is characteristic of "K"-selected
populations but semelparous reproduction is typical for "r"-selected populations.
Under what conditions might such life history features have evolved?
2.Under what conditions might you expect selection to result in everlasting
life (i.e.,
no senescence)? Can you think of any actual examples that approach
this?