Why are organisms usually bigger in colder environments? Making sense of a life history puzzle

The Ecological Implications of Body Size

1983 • 5,648 citations

Size, Function, and Life History

1984 • 2,916 citations

Scaling, why is animal size so important?

1984 • 2,693 citations

Temperature and Organism Size—A Biological Law for Ectotherms?

1994 • 2,229 citations

Temperature Biology of Animals

1987 • 1,159 citations

Life History Invariants: Some Explorations of Symmetry in Evolutionary Ecology

1993 • 721 citations

The Allometry of Growth and Reproduction

1989 • 670 citations

Minimal Dissolved Oxygen Requirements of Aquatic Life with Emphasis on Canadian Species: a Review

1975 • 557 citations

Temperature and Life

1973 • 555 citations

The application of Bergmann's and Allen's rules to the poikilotherms

1960 • 461 citations

Numerical analysis of a comprehensive model of M-phase control in Xenopus oocyte extracts and intact embryos

1993 • 438 citations

Adult Size in Ectotherms: Temperature Effects on Growth and Differentiation

1996 • 398 citations

EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BODY SIZE AND CELL SIZE INDROSOPHILA MELANOGASTERIN RESPONSE TO TEMPERATURE

1994 • 387 citations

Reaction Norms for Age and Size at Maturity in Response to Temperature: A Puzzle for Life Historians

1994 • 350 citations

BERGMANN SIZE CLINES: A SIMPLE EXPLANATION FOR THEIR OCCURRENCE IN ECTOTHERMS

1996 • 299 citations

Temperature and living matter

1935 • 292 citations

Cellular basis and developmental timing in a size cline of Drosophila melanogaster.

1995 • 273 citations

How Rearing Temperature Affects Optimal Adult Size in Ectotherms

1994 • 229 citations

Fundamental aspects of normal and malignant growth

1960 • 219 citations

Dynamic energy budgets in biological systems

1993 • 215 citations

Ectotherm life-history responses to developmental temperature

1996 • 201 citations

Evolution and Development of Body Size and Cell Size in Drosophila melanogaster in Response to Temperature

1994 • 183 citations

Thermal evolution of rate of larval development in Drosophila melanogaster in laboratory and field populations

1995 • 161 citations

Modeling the Cell Division Cycle: M-phase Trigger, Oscillations, and Size Control

1993 • 150 citations

Temperature and living matter

1935 • 144 citations

TEMPERATURE-RELATED DIVERGENCE IN EXPERIMENTAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. I. GENETIC AND DEVELOPMENTAL BASIS OF WING SIZE AND SHAPE VARIATION

1985 • 133 citations

STUDIES IN QUANTITATIVE INHERITANCE. XII. CELL SIZE AND NUMBER IN RELATION TO GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION OF BODY SIZE IN DROSOPHILA

1959 • 129 citations

Thermal evolution of ectotherm body size: why get big in the cold?

1996 • 121 citations

Animals and Temperature

1996 • 112 citations

Bergmann Size Clines: A Simple Explanation for Their Occurrence in Ectotherms

1996 • 111 citations

Fundamental Aspects of Normal and Malignant Growth

1961 • 100 citations

About Berrigan and Charnov's Life-History Puzzle

1995 • 96 citations

Temperature, plant development and crop yields

1996 • 95 citations

Quantitative cellular analysis of growth and reproduction in freshwater planarians (Turbellaria; Tricladida). I. A cellular description of the intact organism

1991 • 48 citations

Comment—Bergmann's rule is invalid: a reply to V. Geist

1990 • 48 citations

Thermal evolution of growth efficiency inDrosophila melanogaster

1995 • 48 citations

On the Solutions to a Major Life-History Puzzle

1996 • 43 citations

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS OF THE VELOCITIES OF VARIOUS PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIONS

1908 • 39 citations

Bergmann's rule is invalid: a reply to J. D. Paterson

1990 • 34 citations

ON THE MEANING OF VARIATION IN THE MAGNITUDE OF TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES

1911 • 22 citations

Equations or Organisms? A Comment on Berrigan and Charnov

1995 • 17 citations

Ectotherms, Time and Temperature: Reaction Norms for Age and Size at Maturity

1995 • 13 citations