Body size is a key feature of organisms and varies continuously because of the effects of
natural selection on the size‐dependency of resource acquisition and mortality rates. This …

▪ Abstract We describe the impact of recent life-history plasticity theory on insect studies,
particularly on the interface between genetics and plasticity. We focus on the three …

This book provides a modern, synthetic overview of interactions between insects and their
environments from a physiological perspective that integrates information across a range 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 …

Bergmann's rule states that individuals of a species/clade at higher altitudes or latitudes will
be larger than those at lower ones. A systemic review of the known literature on inter-and …

Bergmann's rule is currently defined as a within‐species tendency for increasing body size
with increasing latitude or decreasing environmental temperature. This well‐known …

In a recent paper, Van Voorhies (1996) suggested that Bergmann size clines in ectotherms
might result from developmental processes that cause cells to grow larger at lower …

▪ Abstract In evolutionary ecology, risk-spreading (ie bet-hedging) is the idea that
unpredictably variable environments favor genotypes with lower variance in fitness at the …

The relationships between macro-ecological patterns and physiological investigations in
insects, especially those dealing with respiratory metabolism, are assessed in an attempt to …

Within a population there are frequently several discrete morphs. While in some cases,
particularly color polymorphisms, this variation can be explained by simple Mendelian …