abstract The intrinsic rate of increase (rm) has been considered as an important indicator of
fitness in terrestrial ectotherms since long. It is actually an equivalent to the instantaneous …

Many ectotherms show crossing growth trajectories as a plastic response to rearing
temperature. As a result, individuals growing up in cool conditions grow slower, mature later …

Warmer springs may cause animals to become mistimed if advances of spring timing,
including available resources and of timing of breeding occur at different speed. We used …

Experiments with ectothermic animals usually involve the use of constant temperatures,
although the ambient temperature does fluctuate in nature. It is well known that diurnal …

Climate change is resulting in a radical transformation of the thermal quality of habitats
across the globe. Whereas species have altered their distributions to cope with changing …

This thesis investigates to what extent the thermodynamics of biological rates constrains the
thermal adaptation of developing ectotherms. The biophysical Sharpe-Schoolfield model is …

The main aim of this thesis was to establish to what extent the thermodynamics of biological
rates constrains the thermal adaptation of developing ectotherms. Thermodynamics are …

The 'temperature‐size rule'(TSR) is a widely observed phenomenon within ectothermic
species: individuals reared at lower temperatures grow more slowly, but are larger as adults …

The general effects of temperature and nutritional quality on growth rate and body size are
well known. We know little, however, about the physiological mechanisms by which an …

In animals that do not regulate their body temperature by the production of heat, the
proportion of the total developmental time spent in a particular developmental stage does …