REACTION NORMS FOR AGE AND SIZE AT MATURITY IN RESPONSE TO TEMPERATURE - A PUZZLE FOR LIFE HISTORIANS

被引：311

作者：

BERRIGAN, D ^{[1
]}

CHARNOV, EL ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV UTAH, DEPT BIOL, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84112 USA

来源：

OIKOS | 1994年 / 70卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.2307/3545787

中图分类号：

Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];

学科分类号：

071012 ; 0713 ;

摘要：

Ectotherms mature later at smaller size when growth rates are lowered by reductions in food quality but they mature later at larger sizes when growth rate is lowered by reductions in temperature. We argue that this general pattern has been neglected by life history theorists and suggest that an explanation for these strikingly different responses to two environmental cues might be found by considering correlations between the growth coefficient of the Bertalanffy equation and asymptotic size in a model for the evolution of age and size at maturity.

引用

页码：474 / 478

页数：5

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