ArticleBiology letters2019
Warming waters beget smaller fish: evidence for reduced size and altered morphology in a desert fish following anthropogenic temperature change.
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- Defining Conservation Units in a Highly Diverse Species: A Case on Arctic Charr.Evolutionary applications · 2026Article
- The effects of temperature changes on Totoaba macdonaldi larval development, growth, and respiratory rates.Fish physiology and biochemistry · 2025Article
- Water temperature modulates multidimensional plastic responses to water flow during the ontogeny of a neotropical fish (Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Article
- Multi-decadal warming alters predator's effect on prey community composition.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Experimental evidence for adaptive divergence in response to a warmed habitat reveals roles for morphology, allometry and parasite resistance.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Fluctuating and Stable High Temperatures Differentially Affect Reproductive Endocrinology of Female Pupfish.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- Warming waters beget smaller fish: evidence for reduced size and altered morphology in a desert fish following anthropogenic temperature change.Biology letters · 2019Article
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Abstract
Poikilothermic organisms are predicted to show reduced body sizes as they experience warming environments under a changing global climate. Such a shrinking of size is expected under scenarios where rising temperatures increase cellular reaction rates and basal metabolic energy demands, therein requiring limited energy to be shifted from growth. Here, we provide evidence that the ecological changes associated with warming may not only lead to shrinking body size but also trigger shifts in morphology. We documented 33.4 and 39.0% declines in body mass and 7.2 and 7.6% reductions in length for males and females, respectively, in a wild population of Amargosa pupfish,
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