Why the rate of metabolism varies (scales) in regular, but diverse ways with body size is a
perennial, incompletely resolved question in biology. In this article, I discuss several …

Alterations in cell number and size are apparently associated with the body mass
differences between species and sexes, but we rarely know which of the two mechanisms …

Abstract Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is an emerging pest which
established in Ontario, Canada, in 2012. Halyomporpha halys overwinters in anthropogenic …

Predictive models of ectotherm responses to environmental change often rely on thermal
performance data from the literature. For insects, the majority of these data focus on two …

Movement facilitates and alters species interactions, the resulting food web structures,
species distribution patterns, community structures and survival of populations and …

Environmental temperatures and oxygen availability are important for the balance between
oxygen supply and demand. Terrestrial organisms are generally perceived to be less limited …

During development, cells may adjust their size to balance between the tissue metabolic
demand and the oxygen and resource supply: Small cells may effectively absorb oxygen …

The origin of the allometric relationship between standard metabolic rate (MR) and body
mass (M), often described as MR= aMb, remains puzzling, and interpretation of the mass …

The rate at which organisms metabolize resources and consume oxygen is tightly linked to
body mass. Typically, there is a sub-linear allometric relationship between metabolic rates …

Background Individuals within the same species often differ in their metabolic rates, which
may covary with behavioural traits (such as exploration), that are consistent across time …