Atlantic salmon Salmo salar, brown trout Salmo trutta (including the anadromous form, sea
trout) and Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus (including anadromous fish) provide important …

The evolution of intrinsic growth rate has received less attention than other life history traits,
and has been studied differently in plants, homoiotherms, and poikilotherms. The benefits of …

Understanding the large-scale pattern of soil microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) and its
temperature sensitivity (CUET) is critical for understanding soil carbon–climate feedback …

Meiobenthology is the science of the tiny animals that live in huge numbers in all aquatic
sediments. This fully revised and enlarged second edition emphasizes new discoveries and …

Countergradient variation is a geographical pattern of genotypes (with respect to
environments) in which genetic influences on a trait oppose environmental influences …

We evaluate the extent to which physiological tolerances and capacities can be considered
as factors that impact the geographic range of animals. We also discuss the importance of …

Two seemingly opposite evolutionary patterns of clinal variation in body size and associated
life history traits exist in nature. According to Bergmann's rule, body size increases with …

How do organisms adapt to the differences in temperature and length of the growing season
that occur with latitude? Among Atlantic silversides (Menidia menidia) along the east coast …

Body size as an ecologically important characteristic has received significant attention in
recent years (15, 93, 143, 148). These reviews however, deal primarily with higher …

Most water and essential soil nutrient uptake is carried out by fine roots in plants. It is
therefore important to understand the global geographic patterns of fine-root nitrogen and …