Intraspecific variation in offspring size is of fundamental ecological and evolutionary
importance. The level of provisioning an organism receives from its mother can have far …

Egg size is one of the most important aspects of the life history of free-spawning marine
organisms, and it is correlated with larval developmental mode and many other life-history …

Physical and biological factors govern community and population features of sandy beach
macrofauna. At the macroscale, species richness decreases from tropical to temperate …

Portunus pelagicus was collected at regular intervals from two marine embayments and two
estuaries on the lower west coast of Australia and from a large embayment located …

School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld, 4072, Australia E-
mail: d. marshall1@ uq. edu. au, richard. allen@ uq. edu. au, a. crean@ uq. edu. auAbstract …

Coastal marine ecosystems provide important ecosystem services to human populations
worldwide. Understanding the contexts in which a species has markedly higher reproductive …

Theoretical predictions for the relationships between duration of dormancy, reproductive life
span, and dispersal ability developed for plants in temporally varying environments are …

Explaining patterns of latitudinal and seasonal trends in clutch size are two of the oldest and
most fundamental endeavors in avian life history research. Underlying the majority of studies …

Sandy beaches are ecosystems which are heavily affected by human activities. An example
of this is freshwater discharges, which are known to change salinity, temperature and …

Several studies have shown consistent macroinfauna community patterns in sandy beaches
that could be mainly explained by variations in physical factors (ie grain size, beach slope …