Biological characteristics of a species that influence how quickly a population can potentially increase in number is life-history strategies.
What are life history strategies?
- The life history of a species gives us an idea of how a species survives and reproduces during its lifetime.
- This includes factors which affect the fitness of an organism like life span, maturity rate, death rate, parental care.
- Two types of life history strategies are Semelparous (those that can reproduce only once in their lifetime) and Iteroparous (those that can reproduce multiple times over their lifetime e.g. humans).
- Life history strategies relate to natural selection, adaptation and fitness of an organism.
- Factors like the size, number and sex ratio of offspring, time of reproduction, age and size at which an organism matures affect the life history of an organism.
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