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Developing nondestructive species‐specific tree allometry with terrestrial laser scanning
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Allometric equations predict organism attributes from simple measurements and underlie many global‐scale estimates, from plant productivity to ecosystem carbon stocks. In forests, destructive harvesting of trees in common groups (e.g.
Atticus E. L. Stovall +3 more
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Bumblebee visual allometry results in locally improved resolution and globally improved sensitivity
bioRxiv, 2018 The quality of visual information that is available to an animal is limited by the size of its eyes. Differences in eye size can be observed even between closely related individuals but we understand little about how this affects visual quality.
Gavin Taylor +5 more
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The Allometry of Prey Preferences
PLoS ONE, 2011 The distribution of weak and strong non-linear feeding interactions (i.e., functional responses) across the links of complex food webs is critically important for their stability. While empirical advances have unravelled constraints on single-prey functional responses, their validity in the context of complex food webs where most predators have ...
Kalinkat, Gregor +3 more
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Ontogeny of murine bony semicircular canal form
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The labyrinthine geometry and functional anatomy of the semicircular canals have intrigued scientists for decades, and there has been considerable interest in understanding how these complex structures grow and develop with evidence emerging from human studies that size maturation occurs exceptionally early by comparison with other systems ...
Marcela Cárdenas‐Serna +1 more
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The influence of environmental complexity on the worker morphometry of ant assemblages
Sociobiology, 2015 The objective of the present study was to test whether environmental complexity influences the morphology of leaf litter worker ants, as predicted by the size-grain hypothesis.
Jarbas M Queiroz
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The allometry of brain size in mammals
bioRxiv, 2018 Why some animals have big brains and others do not has intrigued scholars for millennia. Yet, the taxonomic scope of brain size research is limited to a few mammal lineages.
Joseph Robert Burger +3 more
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Evolution of multivariate wing allometry in schizophoran flies (Diptera: Schizophora)
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2020 The proximate and ultimate mechanisms underlying scaling relationships as well as their evolutionary consequences remain an enigmatic issue in evolutionary biology.
P. Rohner
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An allometry perspective on crops [PDF]
New PhytologistSummaryUnderstanding trait–trait coordination is essential for successful plant breeding and crop modeling. Notably, plant size drives variation in morphological, physiological, and performance‐related traits, as described by allometric laws in ecology.
Adrianus J. Westgeest +7 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
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Allometry in Centrobolus [PDF]
Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 2018 Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) was investigated in the forest genus Centrobolus of millipedes belonging to the Order Spirobolida distributed along the eastern coast of southern Africa. The specific status of 21 Centrobolus (Table 1) were categorised using size measurements based on width and length data.
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