How global warming changes the toxicity of contaminants is a research priority at the
intersection of global change biology and ecotoxicology. While many pesticides are more …

Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) often results in dramatic differences in body size between
females and males. Despite its ecological importance, little is known about the relationship …

Given the critical role of metabolism in the life history of all organisms, there is particular
interest in understanding the relationship between individual metabolic phenotypes and the …

Postnatal growth in birds and mammals is the time of highest vulnerability and relatively high
energy demands and therefore shapes the organisms' future outcomes. Several different …

Understanding the mechanisms driving geographic range sizes of species is a central issue
in ecology, but remarkably few rules link physiology with the distributions of species …

This chapter focuses on intrinsic factors that affect growth, particularly physiological capacity,
and considers information on how energy and power budgets relate to scope for growth. It …

Metabolic rates potentially regulate the pace of important physiological and life-history traits.
Natural selection has shaped the evolution of metabolic rates and the physiology that …

Growth is a key determinant of fitness in animals, and may be affected by the environmental
challenges presented over the course of an individual's lifespan. When faced with limited …

The European eel, Anguilla anguilla,(Linnaeus, 1758) is a semelparous facultative
catadromous fish (van Ginneken & Maes, 2005). The range of distribution of A. anguilla …

Pesticides and warming are two major environmental stressors in aquatic ecosystems that
can cause biodiversity loss and can interact with each other. Therefore, investigating the …