Marine invertebrate larvae are well known for their distinctive body shapes and elaborate
patterns of ciliation. In this study I take a physically based approach to investigate the …

… Among marine invertebrates, developmental mode has an important influence on autecology,
modes of selection, and rates of speciation and extinction3-5. Species with planktotrophic, …

… strategies that have developed in marine invertebrates. … egg production patterns found among
marine invertebrates, a wide … These trade-offs, together with morpho-functional constraints …

… lifestyle constraints shape the level of aerobic scope available to the marine invertebrate …
up to the limits set by environmental constraints. In a tradeoff between aerobic scope and body …

… and georeferenced database of benthic marine invertebrates, hereafter ‘benthos’… function
dbFD(), used to estimate the three FD indices in the ‘FD’ package. Each index was constrained …

… Constraints in plasticity for developmental time may be avoided in the field by extending the
daily feeding periods. Such strategy would maintain high growth rates, but it would imply an …

… life histories show tremendous variation that can be completely free of phylogenetic constraints.
For example, congeners can vary from external fertilization with tiny long-lived, feeding …

… This review indicates that the analysis of life history strategies of marine invertebrates is in a
… of marine invertebrate life histories are considering the importance of biological constraints. …

… To describe this predation quantitatively, its functional response was … AType I1 functional
response model was fltted to … mixta and our functional response model indicates that ambient …

… the functional structure of communities. Here, we present the functional diversity of coastal
invertebrate … For that, we defined the functional traits and distribution ranges of 2350 marine …