A central goal of comparative life-history theory is to derive the general rules governing growth, metabolic allocation, and biomass partitioning. Here, we use allometric theory to predict the relationships among annual leaf, stem, and root growth rates (GL, GS, and GR, respectively) across a broad spectrum of seed plant species. Our model predicts isometric scaling relationships among all thre...

In his critique of contemporary morphometry, Blackstone (1987) asserts that the conceptual, pattern-oriented framework of allometry ignores developmental processes and is therefore inappropriate for studies in evolutionary morphology. His intent is to emphasize the limitations of allometric studies in the understanding of evolutionary processes. In doing so, however, Blackstone focuses on a des...

Feeding adaptation, social behaviour, and interspecific interactions related to sexual dimorphism and allometric growth are particularly challenging to be investigated in the high sexual monomorphic Delphinidae. We used geometric morphometrics to extensively explore sexual dimorphism and ontogenetic allometry of different projections of the skull and the mandible of the bottlenose dolphin Tursi...

Ontogeny and the Explanation of Form: An Allometric Analysis Author(s): Stephen Jay Gould Source: Memoir (The Paleontological Society), Vol. 2, Supplement to Vol. 42, no. 5 of the Journal of Paleontology. Paleobiological Aspects of Growth and Development: A Symposium (Sep., 1968), pp. 81-98 Published by: Paleontological Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1315520 Accessed: 01-04-201...

The Coruh trout (Salmo coruhensis Turan, Kottelat & Engin, 2010) is a freshwater fish species endemic to Turkey. This study describes the allometric relationships between sagittal otolith (sagitta) measurements and total length (TL) of collected from Çam stream (Artvin, Turkey), length-weight relationship. A 82 individuals were caught with an electroshock device May 2017 April 2018. (LO), h...