Growth, mortality, and life-history scaling across species
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Hypothesis: Allometric scaling of mortality versus adult body size across species is predicted by evolutionary life-history theory to be present (and precise) only if all the species in the data set share the same value for the ‘height’ parameter in their body-size growth curves. Results: This basic prediction is tested and supported in a large fish data set, with the various species spanning the entire range of marine environments, and having about a 12 × range in growth curve height.
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تاریخ انتشار 2018