Evol Ecol Res 13: 661-664 (2011)     Full PDF if your library subscribes.

Growth, mortality, and life-history scaling across species

Eric L. Charnov and Wenyun Zuo

Department of Biology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Correspondence: E.L. Charnov, Department of Biology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA.
e-mail: rlc@unm.edu

ABSTRACT

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.

Keywords: allometry, body size, fish, maturity, optimal life history.

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