Energy is a finite resource required for all physiological processes and must be allocated
efficiently among essential activities to ensure fitness and survival. During the active season …

Environmental variables, such as resource quality, shape growth in organisms, dictating
body size, an important correlate of fitness. Variation in prey characteristics among …

Simple Summary The oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis, negatively impacts global
agriculture. One promising mitigation strategy is biological control, emphasizing a …

Investigating dietary resource utilization and head morphology of gape-limited predators can
provide a basis for understanding interspecific competition and species coexistence. For …

Variation in prey characteristics among populations is frequently associated with similar
variation in predator body sizes. Increasingly, human-mediated alterations in prey …

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate intraspecific variation of life history traits in the
electric knifefish Brachyhypopomus occidentalis under natural conditions, and to explore …