"Clearly, the increased body size typical of these positions is contributing to this substantial risk," the federal study states.
All told, the study concluded, the increased body size of the larger population accounted for between 0.4 and 1.0 gigatons of additional carbon dioxide equivalents per year.
Thus, it would seem that the transition in locomotor grade between vertical clinging and leaping and quadrupedalism came about as an adaptation to increased body size.
The success of malacostracans can be attributed primarily to their increased body size and to the evolution of more functional body regions and more sophisticated food-gathering appendages than possessed by their Paleozoic ancestors (542 million to 251 million years ago).
In the 1970s and '80s, studies of children living with autism and postmortem investigations of autistic individuals led to the identification of associations between autism and minor physical anomalies, such as increased body size, enlarged head circumference, and increased brain weight.
c shows evidence of a real evolutionary trend toward increased body size.
The effect of peramorphosis in driving trends of increased body size is best shown by dinosaurs (McNamara and Long 2012).
The pattern of evolutionary trends of increased body size that occurs very frequently in the fossil record is known as Cope's rule (Hone and Benton 2005).
Oyelese (2007) showed that, predation of African sharptooth catfish on Nile tilapia recruits stopped after the sixth week owing to the increased body size of the prey.
For example, the phylogeny depicted in Fig. 12a may seem to show a trend toward increased body size in this snail clade.
Population abundance and dynamics of an insect pest is dependent on its important ecological fitness parameters such as higher survival rate, faster development, and increased body size.
