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Size matters: relationships between body size and body mass of common coastal, aquatic invertebrates in the Baltic Sea [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Organism biomass is one of the most important variables in ecological studies, making biomass estimations one of the most common laboratory tasks.
Johan Eklöf +6 more
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Experimental harvesting of fish populations drives genetically based shifts in body size and maturation [PDF]
, 2013 Size-selective harvesting in commercial fisheries can induce rapid changes in biological traits. While experimental and wild harvested populations often exhibit clear shifts in body size and maturation associated with fishing pressure, the relative ...
Christine Dreyer +9 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Body size is one of the most important traits of an organism. Among reptiles, both lizards and snakes show body size differences that span a similar six orders of magnitude variation.
Haixia Wu +3 more
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Prey body size mediates the predation risk associated with being "odd" [PDF]
, 2014 Despite selection pressures on prey animals to maintain phenotypically homogeneous groups, variation in phenotype within animal groups is commonly observed.
Downing, Beatrice +2 more
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Body size determines eyespot size and presence in coral reef fishes
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Numerous organisms display conspicuous eyespots. These eye‐like patterns have been shown to effectively reduce predation by either deflecting strikes away from nonvital organs or by intimidating potential predators.
Christopher R. Hemingson +2 more
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Role of zooplanktonic functional groups in a shallow mesotrophic reservoir
Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia, 2023 : Aim Zooplankton functional groups play an important role in lake functioning and can readily respond to environmental changes and may be associated with phytoplankton changes.
Maria Carolina de Almeida Castilho +3 more
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Loss of largest and oldest individuals of the Montpellier snake correlates with recent warming in the southeastern Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
, 2016 The effects of climate change on organisms are now being extensively studied in many different taxa. However, the variation in body size, usually shrinkage in response to increasing temperature, has received little attention regarding to reptiles. During
Alaminos, Esmeralda +3 more
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Body Size Mediated Coexistence in Swans
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 Differences in body sizes may create a trade-off between foraging efficiency (foraging gains/costs) and access to resources. Such a trade-off provides a potential mechanism for ecologically similar species to coexist on one resource.
Katharina A. M. Engelhardt +2 more
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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2015 Objective: To examine the relationship between the body size norms of Black and Hispanic adults and the body sizes of their social network members. Methods: Egocentric network data were examined for 245 adults recruited from 2012–2013 in New York City. A
Ginger Winston +8 more
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Reduced strength and increased variability of extinction selectivity during mass extinctions
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Two of the traits most often observed to correlate with extinction risk in marine animals are geographical range and body size. However, the relative effects of these two traits on extinction risk have not been investigated systematically for either ...
Pedro M. Monarrez +2 more
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