Body size is a key feature of organisms and varies continuously because of the effects of
natural selection on the size‐dependency of resource acquisition and mortality rates. This …

Parents affect offspring fitness by propagule size and quality, selection of oviposition site,
quality of incubation, feeding of dependent young, and their defence against predators and …

This book provides a modern, synthetic overview of interactions between insects and their
environments from a physiological perspective that integrates information across a range of …

Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by
analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction …

The temperature size rule (TSR) is the tendency for ectotherms to develop faster but mature
at smaller body sizes at higher temperatures. It can be explained by a simple model in which …

Maternal effects could influence the persistence of species under environmental change, but
the adaptive significance of many empirically estimated maternal effects remains unclear …

Understanding the mechanisms with which organisms can respond to a rapidly changing
ocean is an important research priority in marine sciences, especially in the light of recent …

We use a factorial experimental design to test whether rearing at colder temperatures shifts
the lower thermal envelope for flight of Drosophila melanogaster Meigen to colder …

The effect of fluctuating temperatures on ectotherm life-history traits: comparisons among
geographic populations of Wyeomyia sm Page 1 The effect of fluctuating temperatures on …

Offspring size is a key functional trait that can affect all phases of the life history, from birth to
reproduction, and is common to all the Metazoa. Despite its ubiquity, reviews of this trait tend …