Ontogenetic dietary shifts (ODSs), the changes in diet utilisation occurring over the life span
of an individual consumer, are widespread in the animal kingdom. Understanding ODSs …

Accounting for energy use by fishes has been taking place for over 200 years. The original,
and continuing gold standard for measuring energy use in terrestrial animals, is to account …

Size at the start of life reflects the initial per offspring parental investment—including both the
embryo and the nutrients supplied to it. Initial offspring size can vary substantially, both …

Body shape and metabolic rate can be important determinants of animal performance, yet
often their effects on influential traits are evaluated in a non-integrated way. This creates an …

Environmental temperatures differ across latitudes in the temperate zone, with relatively
lower summer and fall temperatures in the north leading to a shorter growing season prior to …

Metabolic rate, the amount of energy consumed per unit of time, for an organism to sustain
life, is influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Despite similarities among living …

Simple Summary Ontogenetic phase shift (ie, a sudden change) in metabolism has been
observed in several fish species during their early development, and understanding such …

Metabolism is the fundamental process dictating material and energy fluxes through
organisms. Several studies have suggested that resting metabolic scaling in various aquatic …

Commonly observed multiphasic ontogenetic scaling of the rate of metabolism with body
mass deserves increased attention because metabolism fuels all biological processes …

Woody and herbaceous plants are the main components of global terrestrial ecosystems,
and their growth, adaptation and survival depend largely on the metabolism of shoots and …