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 …

Recently, the importance of the female to population dynamics—especially her non‐genetic
contribution to offspring fitness or maternal effect—has received much attention in studies of …

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 …

Thermal constraint on energy assimilation is an important source of life history variation in
geographically widespread ectotherms such as the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus …

I present a dynamic bioenergetic model that couples individual energetics and population
dynamics to predict current lizard ranges and those following climate warming. The model …

Recent global warming threatens many species and has already caused population‐and
species‐level extinctions. In particular, high risks of extinction are expected for isolated …

Prey often respond to predator presence by increasing their use of refuges. However,
unfavorable thermal conditions in refuges might entail physiological costs for an ectothermic …

The generality and causes of Bergmann's rule have been debated vigorously in the last few
years, but Bergmann's clines are rarely explained in the context of life-history theory. We …

Lizards of the family Eublepharidae exhibit interspecific diversity in body size, sexual size
dimorphism (SSD), head size dimorphism (HSD), occurrence of male combat, and presence …

Life histories evolve as a response to multiple agents of selection, such as age‐specific
mortality, resource availability or environmental fluctuations. Predators can affect life‐history …