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Lectures at Conference Centre Athena
Doctoral School of Earth sciences and Ecology offers you the opportunity to particpate in the following presentations at Conference Centre Athena (Tartu, Küütri 1) in the framework of the conference "Thermadapt Science meeting: Evolutionary and plastic responses of animal growth to different temperatures: adaptations and constraints".
Thrusday, April 28
9.00. - David Atkinson (U of Liverpool). A fresh look at relationships between temperature, body size and biological rates
10.00. - Jeff Arendt (U of California). Reproductive allometry and the temperature-size rule; being bigger in the cold is adaptive for some, but not all
11.20. Karl Gotthard (U of Stockholm). The evolution of body size and alternative developmental pathways in temperate butterflies
12.20. Toomas Tammaru (U of Tartu). Determination of body size in Lepidoptera: looking for constraints
Saturday, April 30
9.00. - Alexander Shingleton (Michigan State U). The thermal regulation of body and organ size: a developmental perspective
10.00. - Neil Metcalfe (U of Glasgow). Long-term fitness consequences of temperature-induced changes in growth trajectory in fish
11.20. - Shai Meiri (Tel Aviv U). What kind of thermal regime does lizard evolve to meet?
12.20. Robby Stoks (U of Leuven). A role for physiological constraints in the latitudinal differentiation of thermal growth reaction norms?
For more information see: http://www.geoeco.ut.ee/et/988699
Toomas Tammaru
professor of zoology