Abstract Mussel shells are often found in archaeological excavations and can provide information useful for ecological reconstruction assessment of anthropogenic impact on waters. In this study, two sample groups swollen river mussel ( Unio tumidus ) which occurred during the Early Middle Ages (EMS) currently (MS) Oder estuary (Baltic basin) were compared. Allometric shell growth, morphological...

Intrinsic population growth rate (r(max)) is an important parameter for many ecological applications, such as population risk assessment and harvest management. However, r(max) can be a difficult parameter to estimate, particularly for long-lived species, for which appropriate life table data or abundance time series are typically not obtainable. We describe a method for improving estimates of ...

abstract this study carried out on 194 fish (garra rufa) during the months of january to march at eight stations in dinvar river located at kermanshah province. during this study, 34 attributes and 11 traits count was measured geometric parameters and natural mortality and total amount 0.346, infinite length l∞=124.57 mm, growth factor k=0.29 and the length and weight of the exponential functio...

BACKGROUND Carbon accounting in forests remains a large area of uncertainty in the global carbon cycle. Forest aboveground biomass is therefore an attribute of great interest for the forest management community, but the accuracy of aboveground biomass maps depends on the accuracy of the underlying field estimates used to calibrate models. These field estimates depend on the application of allom...

Here, we advance novel uses of allometric spaces--multidimensional spaces specifically defined by allometric coefficients--with the goal of investigating the focal role of development in shaping the evolution of morphological disparity. From their examination, operational measures of allometric disparity can be derived, complementing standard signals of morphological disparity through an intuit...

length-weight relationship and condition factor were investigated in seven fish species, including barbus cyri , capoeta gracilis , alburnoides eichwaldi , acanthalbarnus microlepis , ponticola cyrius , cobitis keyvani and oxynemacheilus bergianus from totkabon river. a total of 570 specimens ranging from 25.90 to 146.97 mm in total length and 0.1 to 260.3 g in total weight were collected. base...

The acyl composition of phospholipids from pectoral muscle of eight species of birds, ranging in size from the 13 g zebra finch to the 34 kg emu, were measured and combined with recent published results for a 3 g hummingbird. This represents an approximately 11000-fold range in body mass. Muscle phospholipids, and thus muscle membrane bilayers, from birds had a relatively constant unsaturated a...

While many allometric relationships are relatively simple and linear (when both variables are log transformed), others are much more complex. This paper explores an example of a complex allometric relationship, that of testes mass allometry in amniotes, by breaking it down into linear components and using this exploration to help explain why this complexity exists. These linear components are t...

A survey of 117 species of arthropods and 17 species of vertebrates showed a strong trend for male genitalia to have relatively low static allometric values. This trend contrasts with the allometry of other structures under sexual selection, which usually show steep allometric slopes. The trend to low allometric genital values is less consistent in mammals than in arthropods. Data not in accord...