The Gompertz model is well known and widely used in many aspects of biology. It has been
frequently used to describe the growth of animals and plants, as well as the number or …

In seasonal environments subject to climate change, organisms typically show phenological
changes. As these changes are usually stronger in organisms at lower trophic levels than …

We compare four candidate models (logistic, Gompertz, von Bertalanffy, and extreme value
function) for modelling the growth of birds. We fitted the models to two empirical data sets of …

Parental care can enhance offspring survival but may impose significant costs to parents.
The costs and benefits of care are key to understanding patterns of parental care, where …

Growth of the young is an important part of the life history in birds. However, modelling
methods have paid little attention to the choice of regression model used to describe its …

A climate-induced phenological mismatch between the timing of reproduction and the timing
of food resource peaks is one of the key hypothesized effects of climate change on wildlife …

The aim of the present study was to determine the distribution of per-and polyfluoroalkyl
substances (PFASs) in three-egg clutches of Audouin's gull (Larus audouinii) breeding in …

Background Growth trajectories should be adapted to selective factors of each species'
environment. However, major shaping forces of growth and development are unclear …

Mathematical modeling can be a powerful tool to predict disease spread in large
populations as well as to understand different factors which can impact it such as social …

Understanding how environmental conditions affect growth is important because conditions
experienced during early development could have immediate as well as long-term fitness …