A major goal of ecology and evolutionary biology is to explain patterns of species richness
among clades. Differences in rates of net diversification (speciation minus extinction over …

Animals that exhibit indeterminate growth obey such a functional relationship: adult body
size= f (initial size+ growth rate× age). Using this framework, we investigated how and why …

Background Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is related to ecology, behaviour and life history
of organisms. Rensch's rule states that SSD increases with overall body size in species …

Rensch's rule claims that sexual size dimorphism (SSD) increases with body size when
males are larger but decreases with body size when males are smaller. Chinese wood frog …

Environmental variation can promote differentiation in life-history traits in species of anurans.
Increased environmental stress usually results in larger age at sexual maturity, older mean …

Why and how organisms differ in life-history strategies across their range is a long-standing
topic of interest to evolutionary ecologists. Although many studies have addressed this issue …

In anuran amphibians, age-and size-related life-history traits vary along latitudinal and
altiudinal gradients. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that altitudinal and …

Rensch's rule refers to a pattern in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in which SSD increases
with body size when males are the larger sex and decreases with body size when females …

In the present study, we investigated potential effects of some environmental climatic factors
on life-history traits of two Darevskia parvula populations located at different elevation sites …

Body sizes in endothermic species tend to increase as temperature decreases in
accordance with Bergmann's rule. However, why do some species support Bergmann's …