Abstract Understanding resource allocation strategies underlying inducible defense is a challenging scientific issue, because of the difficulty in measuring allocations defensive traits. We examined allometric changes to evaluate on tail spine Daphnia within and between species further explore at different developmental stages their relationship with growth reproduction. found that four (Daphni...

Understanding the concept of extrapolation of dose between species is important for pharmaceutical researchers when initiating new animal or human experiments. Interspecies allometric scaling for dose conversion from animal to human studies is one of the most controversial areas in clinical pharmacology. Allometric approach considers the differences in body surface area, which is associated wit...

Invasive alien species can have serious adverse impacts on both the environment and the economy. Being able to predict the impacts of an alien species could assist in preventing or reducing these impacts. This study aimed to establish whether there are any life history traits consistently correlated with the impacts of alien birds across two continents, Europe and Australia, as a first step tow...

More accurate determination of leaf plasticity induced by the legacy effect grazing and immediate ingestion can provide insights on growth–defense tradeoffs, are great importance to understanding valuable indicators for grassland management. Despite ecological traits, effectiveness as a key physical anti-herbivore trait that may signal disturbance has not yet been assessed. Here, we assessed an...

The astounding variety of angiosperm flower morphologies has evolved in response to many selective forces. Flower development is highly coordinated and involves developmental associations between size and shape, ontogenetic allometry, which in turn affect the morphology of mature flowers. Although ontogenetic allometries can act as a developmental constraint and may influence adaptive evolution...

*Correspondence: Juan Bueno, Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Avda. Príncipe de Asturias 70 bis, Gijón 33212, Spain e-mail: [email protected] †Present address: Juan Bueno, Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal A curvilinear relationship between mammalian metabolic rate and body size on a lo...

Over the past decade, functional traits that influence plant performance and thus, population, community, and ecosystem biology have garnered increasing attention. Generally lacking, however, has been consideration of how ubiquitous arbuscular mycorrhizas influence plant allometric and stoichiometric functional traits. We assessed how plant dependence on and responsiveness to mycorrhizas influe...