Sentence examples for body size and changes from inspiring English sources

Several recent studies have suggested that species from many taxa and environments are already responding to regional climate change with, for example, poleward and elevational range shifts, changes in abundance, changes in body size, and changes in the timing of life history events [ 1- 3].

The newly formed cuticle is soft, which allows it to stretch and expand to accommodate the increased body size and changed body shape.

Given the environmental forces that drive body size and metamorphic changes in A. tigrinum, we used a late-Holocene fossil record to track these traits through the last 3000 years.

This last property of the model has the expected result that the spectrum of genes regulating different cancers in different tissues within a species may differ, and across species, tissue-specific suppression will share some similarities due to common ancestry but will diverge depending upon body size and longevity changes occurring in their lineages after divergence.

We analyzed a late-Holocene fossil record of the Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) for evidence of population-level changes in body size and paedomorphosis to climatic change over the last 3000 years.

In O. nigriventris, scaling relationships between body size and horn length changed significantly from the pupal to the adult stage (Fig. 2A).

The scaling relationships between body size and horn length changed significantly from the pupal to the adult stage, however, unlike the previous two species all adults beetles had much shorter horns then their corresponding pupae regardless of final body size (Fig. 4A).

Therefore, in our experiment, we manipulated the body size of the aposematic prey while keeping the colour signal a constant size in order to investigate specifically the effect of changes in body size and energetic reward, and not changes in signal detectability.

Both evolutionary and plastic changes in body size and egg number occurred but no changes in the timing of reproduction were observed.

Projected principal component scores of R. pombali occupied a distinct area of the morphometric space but most of the variation contained in the canonical axis is explained by body size and not by significant changes in shape.

Individuals >1 yr of age may be less sensitive to salinity changes because of their larger body size, and so only respond to changes when freshwater flows have substantially decreased.