Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature–size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen

Triploidy in zebrafish larvae: Effects on gene expression, cell size and cell number, growth, development and swimming performance

(2020) Iris L. E. van de Pol et al.   PLoS One

Oxygen supply capacity in animals evolves to meet maximum demand at the current oxygen partial pressure regardless of size or temperature

(2020) Brad A. Seibel et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Thermal and oxygen conditions during development cause common rough woodlice (Porcellio scaber) to alter the size of their gas-exchange organs

(2020) Andrzej Antoł et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Fish body sizes change with temperature but not all species shrink with warming

(2020) Asta Audzijonyte et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Reconsidering the oxygen-temperature hypothesis of polar gigantism: successes, failures, and nuance

(2020) H Arthur Woods et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Recent warming reduces the reproductive advantage of large size and contributes to evolutionary downsizing in nature

(2020) David C. Fryxell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rapid shifts in the thermal sensitivity of growth but not development rate causes temperature-size response variability during ontogeny in arthropods

(2019) Curtis R. Horne et al.   OIKOS

Female Fish Grow Bigger – Let’s Deal with It

(2019) Daniel Pauly   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Two-Year Bee, or Not Two-Year Bee? How Voltinism Is Affected by Temperature and Season Length in a High-Elevation Solitary Bee

(2019) Jessica R. K. Forrest et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Variation of thermal plasticity in growth and reproduction patterns: Importance of ancestral and developmental temperatures.

(2019) Ayala Loisel et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Scaling of thermal tolerance with body mass and genome size in ectotherms: a comparison between water- and air-breathers

(2019) Félix P. Leiva et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional Hypoxia in Insects: Definition, Assessment, and Consequences for Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution

(2018) Jon F. Harrison et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Local adaptation reduces the metabolic cost of environmental warming

(2018) Emma R Moffett et al.   ECOLOGY

Temperature-dependent oxygen limitation and the rise of Bergmann's rule in species with aquatic respiration

(2018) Njal Rollinson et al.   EVOLUTION

Insect temperature-body size trends common to laboratory, latitudinal and seasonal gradients are not found across altitudes

(2018) Curtis R. Horne et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Mass scaling of the resting and maximum metabolic rates of the black carp

(2018) Xiao Lv et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   NATURE

Fish reproductive-energy output increases disproportionately with body size

(2018) Diego R. Barneche et al.   SCIENCE

Fishing and temperature effects on the size structure of exploited fish stocks

(2018) Chen-Yi Tu et al.   Scientific Reports

The temperature-size rule in Daphnia magna across different genetic lines and ontogenetic stages: Multiple patterns and mechanisms

(2018) K. Natan Hoefnagel et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Why adult mayflies of Cloeon dipterum (Ephemeroptera:Baetidae) become smaller as temperature warms

(2018) Bernard W. Sweeney et al.   Freshwater Science

Why adult mayflies of Cloeon dipterum (Ephemeroptera:Baetidae) become smaller as temperature warms

(2018) Bernard W. Sweeney et al.   Freshwater Science

Population-level responses to temperature, density and clonal differences in Daphnia magna as revealed by integral projection modelling

(2018) Marjolein Bruijning et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Gradients of season length and mortality risk cause shifts in body size, reserves and reproductive strategies of determinate growers

(2018) Maciej J. Ejsmond et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

An interspecific test of Bergmann's rule reveals inconsistent body size patterns across several lineages of water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

(2018) Susana Pallarés et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Have We Outgrown the Existing Models of Growth?

(2018) Dustin J. Marshall et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Slow development as an evolutionary cost of long life

(2017) Martin I. Lind et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Nuclear DNA content correlates with depth, body size, and diversification rate in amphipod crustaceans from ancient Lake Baikal, Russia

(2017) Nicholas W. Jeffery et al.   GENOME

Large but uneven reduction in fish size across species in relation to changing sea temperatures

(2017) Itai van Rijn et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sound physiological knowledge and principles in modeling shrinking of fishes under climate change

(2017) Daniel Pauly et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Models projecting the fate of fish populations under climate change need to be based on valid physiological mechanisms

(2017) Sjannie Lefevre et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Elucidating mechanisms for insect body size: partial support for the oxygen-dependent induction of moulting hypothesis

(2017) Sami M. Kivelä et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The fallacy of the average: on the ubiquity, utility and continuing novelty of Jensen's inequality

(2017) Mark Denny   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Seasonal body size reductions with warming covary with major body size gradients in arthropod species

(2017) Curtis R. Horne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome size in arthropods; different roles of phylogeny, habitat and life history in insects and crustaceans

(2017) Kristian Alfsnes et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Some like it hot? Developmental differences in Yellow-bellied Toad (Bombina variegata) tadpoles from geographically close but different habitats

(2016) C. Dittrich et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Effects of food availability on growth and reproduction of the deep-sea pedunculate barnacle Heteralepas canci

(2016) Natsumi Yasuda et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

A large-scale latitudinal pattern of life-history traits in a strictly univoltine damselfly

(2016) SZYMON SNIEGULA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

A global synthesis of seasonal temperature-size responses in copepods

(2016) Curtis R. Horne et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental drivers of voltinism and body size in insect assemblages across Europe

(2016) Dirk Zeuss et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

‘Optimal thermal range’ in ectotherms: Defining criteria for tests of the temperature-size-rule

(2016) Aleksandra Walczyńska et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Traits controlling body size in copepods: separating general constraints from species-specific strategies

(2016) NS Banas et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Low Temperature and Polyploidy Result in Larger Cell and Body Size in an Ectothermic Vertebrate

(2016) Adam Hermaniuk et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Chromosome numbers in three species groups of freshwater flatworms increase with increasing latitude

(2016) Sven Lorch et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Inter- and intraspecific variation in body- and genome size in calanoid copepods from temperate and arctic waters

(2016) Hans Petter Leinaas et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Traits controlling body size in copepods: separating general constraints from species-specific strategies

(2016) NS Banas et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Temperature-size responses match latitudinal-size clines in arthropods, revealing critical differences between aquatic and terrestrial species

(2015) Curtis R. Horne et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The temperature–size rule in a rotifer is determined by the mother and at the egg stage

(2015) Aleksandra Walczyńska et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

The Temperature–Size Rule in Lecane inermis (Rotifera) is adaptive and driven by nuclei size adjustment to temperature and oxygen combinations

(2015) Aleksandra Walczyńska et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Is the temperature-size rule mediated by oxygen in aquatic ectotherms?

(2015) K. Natan Hoefnagel et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Body size response to warming: time of the season matters in a tephritid fly

(2015) Xinqiang Xi et al.   OIKOS

Elevational differences in developmental plasticity determine phenological responses of grasshoppers to recent climate warming

(2015) Lauren B. Buckley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shape shifting predicts ontogenetic changes in metabolic scaling in diverse aquatic invertebrates

(2015) D. S. Glazier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hypoxia induces calpain activity and degrades SMAD2 to attenuate TGFβ signaling in macrophages

(2015) Wei Cui et al.   Cell and Bioscience

Metabolic theory explains latitudinal variation in common carp populations and predicts responses to climate change

(2015) Michael J. Weber et al.   Ecosphere

Convergent local adaptation in size and growth rate but not metabolic rate in a pair of parapatric Orthoptera species

(2014) Niki A. Minards et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Latitudinal variation in thermal reaction norms of post-winter pupal development in two butterflies differing in phenological specialization

(2014) Diana Posledovich et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Body shape shifting during growth permits tests that distinguish between competing geometric theories of metabolic scaling

(2014) Andrew G. Hirst et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disentangling the Consequences of Growth Temperature and Adult Acclimation Temperature on Starvation and Thermal Tolerance in the Red Flour Beetle

(2014) Inon Scharf et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Why get big in the cold? Size-fecundity relationships explain the temperature-size rule in a pulmonate snail (Physa)

(2014) J. Arendt   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Explaining the sawtooth: latitudinal periodicity in a circadian gene correlates with shifts in generation number

(2014) R. C. Levy et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Breaking the temperature-size rule: Thermal effects on growth, development and fecundity of a crustacean from temporary waters

(2014) Josep A. Aguilar-Alberola et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Dormancy cues alter insect temperature–size relationships

(2014) Sharon F. Clemmensen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Dispersal potential impacts size clines of grasshoppers across an elevation gradient

(2014) Richard A. Levy et al.   OIKOS

The lost generation hypothesis: could climate change drive ectotherms into a developmental trap?

(2014) Hans Van Dyck et al.   OIKOS

Physiological plasticity increases resilience of ectothermic animals to climate change

(2014) Frank Seebacher et al.   Nature Climate Change

Intrapopulation Genome Size Variation in D. melanogaster Reflects Life History Variation and Plasticity

(2014) Lisa L. Ellis et al.   PLoS Genetics

Critical PO2 is size-independent in insects: implications for the metabolic theory of ecology

(2014) Jon F Harrison et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

The Cold-Water Connection: Bergmann’s Rule in North American Freshwater Fishes

(2013) Andrew L. Rypel   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Respiratory control in aquatic insects dictates their vulnerability to global warming

(2013) W. C. E. P. Verberk et al.   Biology Letters

Time stress and temperature explain continental variation in damselfly body size

(2013) Christopher Hassall   ECOGRAPHY

Multiple effects of temperature, photoperiod and food quality on the performance of a pine sawfly

(2013) IDA KOLLBERG et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Implications of hypoxia tolerance for wetland refugia use in Lake Nabugabo, Uganda

(2013) Andrea J. Reid et al.   ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH

Why polar gigantism and Palaeozoic gigantism are not equivalent: effects of oxygen and temperature on the body size of ectotherms

(2013) Wilco C. E. P. Verberk et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Climate warming and ectotherm body size - from individual physiology to community ecology

(2013) Jan Ohlberger   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Ecological emergence of thermal clines in body size

(2013) Eric Edeline et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Warming temperatures and smaller body sizes: synchronous changes in growth of North Sea fishes

(2013) Alan R. Baudron et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Temperature Size Rule in Arthropods: Independent of Macro-Environmental Variables but Size Dependent

(2013) C. Jaco Klok et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Temperature dependence of trophic interactions are driven by asymmetry of species responses and foraging strategy

(2013) Anthony I. Dell et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Mosaic physiology from developmental noise: within-organism physiological diversity as an alternative to phenotypic plasticity and phenotypic flexibility

(2013) H. A. Woods   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Non-stressful temperature effect on oxidative balance and life history traits in adult fish (Oryzias latipes)

(2013) C. Hemmer-Brepson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The role of reduced oxygen in the developmental physiology of growth and metamorphosis initiation in Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) V. Callier et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Flies developed small bodies and small cells in warm and in thermally fluctuating environments

(2013) M. Czarnoleski et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Life history traits associated with body size covary along a latitudinal gradient in a generalist grasshopper

(2013) Sheena M. A. Parsons et al.   OECOLOGIA

Relationship between Fish Size and Metabolic Rate in the Oxyconforming Inanga Galaxias maculatus Reveals Size-Dependent Strategies to Withstand Hypoxia

(2013) Mauricio A. Urbina et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Temperature-size rule is mediated by thermal plasticity of critical size in Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) S. M. Ghosh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Where Are We Now? Bergmann’s Rule Sensu Lato in Insects

(2012) Matan Shelomi   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Temperature-size relations from the cellular-genomic perspective

(2012) Dag O. Hessen et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The temperature-size rule emerges from ontogenetic differences between growth and development rates

(2012) Jack Forster et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Achieving temperature-size changes in a unicellular organism

(2012) Jack Forster et al.   ISME Journal

Photoperiod-temperature interaction-a new form of seasonal control of growth and development in insects and in particular a Carabid Beetle, Amara communis (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

(2012) E. B. Lopatina et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY

Why might they be giants? Towards an understanding of polar gigantism

(2012) Amy L. Moran et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Warming-induced reductions in body size are greater in aquatic than terrestrial species

(2012) J. Forster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental demonstration of the growth rate-lifespan trade-off

(2012) W.-S. Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

New insights into the plasticity of gill structure

(2012) Göran E. Nilsson et al.   RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROBIOLOGY

Shrinking of fishes exacerbates impacts of global ocean changes on marine ecosystems

(2012) William W. L. Cheung et al.   Nature Climate Change

Growth and Development Rates Have Different Thermal Responses

(2011) Jack Forster et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A guided tour of large genome size in animals: what we know and where we are heading

(2011) France Dufresne et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Oxygen supply in aquatic ectotherms: Partial pressure and solubility together explain biodiversity and size patterns

(2011) Wilco C. E. P. Verberk et al.   ECOLOGY

Reproductive allometry does not explain the temperature-size rule in water striders (Aquarius remigis)

(2011) Jeff Arendt et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

How do organisms change size with changing temperature? The importance of reproductive method and ontogenetic timing

(2011) Jack Forster et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Latitudinal insect body size clines revisited: a critical evaluation of the saw-tooth model

(2011) Sami M. Kivelä et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Photoperiod modifies thermal reaction norms for growth and development in the red poplar leaf beetle Chrysomela populi (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

(2011) Dmitry A. Kutcherov et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Food Availability Alters the Effects of Larval Temperature on Aedes aegypti Growth

(2011) H. Padmanabha et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Description of the individual growth of Daphnia magna (Crustacea: Cladocera) through the von Bertalanffy growth equation. Effect of photoperiod and temperature

(2011) Fernando Martínez-Jerónimo   LIMNOLOGY

Control of body size by oxygen supply reveals size-dependent and size-independent mechanisms of molting and metamorphosis

(2011) V. Callier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

(2011) Janet L. Gardner et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The trade-off between growth rate and locomotor performance varies with perceived time until breeding

(2010) W.-S. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

New spicular skeletons in Turbellaria, and the occurrence of spicules in marine meiofauna1

(2010) Reinhard M. Rieger et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Maximizing growth rate at low temperatures: RNA:DNA allocation strategies and life history traits of Arctic and temperate Daphnia

(2010) G. J. Van Geest et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

The balance between predictions and evidence and the search for universal macroecological patterns: taking Bergmann’s rule back to its endothermic origin

(2010) Daniel Pincheira-Donoso   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES

Environmental Dependence of Thermal Reaction Norms: Host Plant Quality Can Reverse the Temperature‐Size Rule

(2009) Sarah E. Diamond et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The considerable adult size variability in wood feeders is optimal

(2009) ALEKSANDRA WALCZYŃSKA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Bergmann's rule; a concept cluster?

(2009) Cortney Watt et al.   OIKOS

Global warming benefits the small in aquatic ecosystems

(2009) M. Daufresne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Speed over efficiency: locusts select body temperatures that favour growth rate over efficient nutrient utilization

(2009) G. A. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of photoperiod on egg production and hatching success, naupliar and copepodite development, adult sex ratio and life expectancy of the tropical calanoid copepod Acartia sinjiensis

(2008) Thomas Camus et al.   AQUACULTURE

Genome size diversity in the family Drosophilidae

(2008) T R Gregory et al.   HEREDITY

Scaling of metabolism in Helix aspersa snails: changes through ontogeny and response to selection for increased size

(2008) M. Czarnoleski et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Dynamic Nature of Eukaryotic Genomes

(2008) L. W. Parfrey et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION