14952 IUPAC Gold Book - principle of allocation 10.1351/goldbook.14952 14952 current synonym: concept of strategy 1 Concept that there exists a cost or trade-off to every allocation of energy resources. Energy spent by an individual organism on one function, process, or structure cannot be spent on another. Optimal allocation of resources enhances Darwinian fitness. PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 932 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14952/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14952/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14952/plain Citation: 'principle of allocation' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14952 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-18T23:47:49+00:00