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 …

Phenotypic plasticity is an important mechanism that allows populations to adjust to 23
changing environments. Plastic responses induced by early life experiences can have …

Numerous growth functions exist to describe the ontogeny of animals. Such functions (eg,
von Bertalanffy's equation, thermal-unit growth coefficient) are currently applied to …

Behavior determines how organisms interact with their environment, and has long been
posited as a pacemaker for evolution. The classical view is that novel behaviors expose …

Temperature has profound effects on ectotherms such as plants, invertebrates, and lower
vertebrates (Hochachka and Somero 1984; Cossins and Bowler 1987). The impact of …

The field of thermal biology has a long history and a key position in environmental studies
and in organismal biology. Presently, its relevance is rising in the context of ongoing efforts …

Thermal performance curves have been widely used to model the ecological responses of
ectotherms to variable thermal environments and climate change. Such models ignore the …

Fig. 1. Berrigan and Charnov's (1994) family of growth curves with a negative correlation
between the growth coefficient, k, and asymptotic size, A. Parameters that are not explicitly …

Transgenerational plasticity (TGP) is increasingly recognized as a mechanism by which
organisms can respond to environments that change across generations. Although recent …

The relationship between ectotherm ecology and climatic conditions has been mainly
evaluated in terms of average conditions. Average temperature is the more common climatic …