Warming-induced reductions in body size are greater in aquatic than terrestrial species
Warming-induced reductions in body size are greater in aquatic than terrestrial species
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1210460109
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发表时间:
2012-11-20
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Atkinson, David
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作者:
Forster, Jack;Hirst, Andrew G.;Atkinson, David
Most ectothermic organisms mature at smaller body sizes when reared in warmer conditions. This phenotypically plastic response, known as the "temperature-size rule" (TSR), is one of the most taxonomically widespread patterns in biology. However, the TSR remains a longstanding life-history puzzle for which no dominant driver has been found. We propose that oxygen supply plays a central role in explaining the magnitude of ectothermic temperature-size responses. Given the much lower oxygen availability and greater effort required to increase uptake in water vs. air, we predict that the TSR in aquatic organisms, especially larger species with lower surface area-body mass ratios, will be stronger than in terrestrial organisms. We performed ameta-analysis of 1,890 body mass responses to temperature in controlled experiments on 169 terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species. This reveals that the strength of the temperature-size response is greater in aquatic than terrestrial species. In animal species of similar to 100 mg dry mass, the temperature-size response of aquatic organisms is 10 times greater than in terrestrial organisms (-5.0% degrees C-1 vs. -0.5% degrees C-1). Moreover, although the size response of small (